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...hardest things to do in sports is defend a championship, but the Harvard women’s golf team managed to make it look easy, winning seven of eight tournaments this season and placing second in the other.The latest and greatest victory came this weekend in the Ivy League Championships at Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, N.J., where the Crimson held off a final-round charge by Yale to win by two strokes and claim the league title for the second year in a row.“Yale played fantastic today,” Harvard coach Kevin Rhoads...
...bosses at the FBI and pulled out of the interrogations. This led to a rift between the Bureau and the CIA that has not fully healed. Yet Soufan says that if any CIA officials are prosecuted for the use of harsh techniques, he "will be the first person to defend them." The real blame, he says, lies with "those who told them it is legal to do such things...
...Daily Show montage of efforts to defend ends with observation by Peggy Noonan so ludicrous that she may never live it down...
...traditionalists defend Koh's character. Former Senator John Danforth wrote the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he was "puzzled and distressed that various media personalities and interest groups have tried to tarnish" Koh, whom he called "well within the mainstream of American legal thinkers." Olson called Koh "a brilliant scholar and a man of great integrity," and Starr said he "embraces, deeply, a vision of the goodness of America...
...Bureau of Investigation probe into Harman but were held back by then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who allegedly argued to then CIA Director Porter Goss and then Director of National Intelligence Michael Hayden that Gonzales needed Harman's support as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee to defend President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretaps...