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...check. When the Harvard women’s softball team opens its 2008 campaign this weekend at the San Diego Classic it will do so with most of the players that were on the Ivy championship team last spring. Have no doubt about it, those players are ready to defend their title.“We want to repeat this year,” captain Shelly Madick said. Madick, the 2007 Ivy Pitcher of the Year, will headline the pitching rotation for the Crimson. In a 2007 season that was filled with memorable performances, Madick turned in perhaps her best...
...Thank goodness,” Amaker said of Bernardini’s limited minutes. “He’s a terrific shooter and a very good offensive player. Driving the ball on the offensive end, sometimes that’s the best way to defend players like that because you can pick up fouls on them. They can’t shoot it and score it if they’re not in the game...
...Spooning brown sugar into tiny glasses of tea, the Hizballah commander said that the Shi'ite fighters will be on the offensive in the next war, hinting at taking the battle into Israel itself. "We weren't expecting the last war and we fought only to defend our land, but next time you will see a very different kind of fighting," he said...
Still, Kosovo is no joke because instability in the Balkans tends to spread. It triggered World War I, not to mention a few smaller conflicts in the 1990s. The Kosovo war was a big deal in 1999, when President Bill Clinton instigated a NATO bombing campaign to defend Kosovo's Albanian Muslims and defuse a refugee crisis. Tom DeLay, then the House majority whip, accused Clinton of embroiling the U.S. in a "quagmire," of "involving the U.S. military in a civil war in a sovereign nation." But that wouldn't happen to America for another four years. No, the Kosovo...
Although the industry continues to defend its "risk-based pricing", which it says has made cards more generally available, the voluntary changes from Chase and Citibank (which eliminated its universal default clause in 2007) show a new willingness to curb some of the more controversial practices. "They are kowtowing to political pressure," says Frank Braden, an equity analyst at Standard & Poors. Adds Levin, "They take it very seriously. I think they are very nervous...