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Buesser spent much of the year playing with rookie center Jillian Dempsey, who wound up 10th in the country in rookie scoring, and Ryabkina—a line that consistently created scoring opportunities and combined for 14 points in four playoff games...
...sets the expectations high and always believes in you, only because she knows you can do it,” freshman Jillian Dempsey said. “She’s going to make us the best...
...freshman hockey standout Jillian Dempsey, improving on the little things had big results in her rookie season. Sometimes getting better was just a matter of going to practice a little earlier or staying a little later, giving more effort in the weight room, and never being satisfied with a mediocre performance. These small adjustments, accompanied by immense talent, made not only for a star rookie, but for a great hockey player...
Worse, many believe the policies have helped stoke the Taliban's war against the coalition by uniting residents against the Afghan soldiers who destroyed their opium crops. "Eradicating marijuana and opium fields can breed resentment by people and be destabilizing," says John Dempsey, a rule-of-law adviser to U.S. and Afghan officials for the U.S. Institute of Peace. He cites the town of Marjah, in Helmand province, where U.S. forces rolled tanks over poppy fields in a major offensive in February, two years after Afghan forces destroyed the local farmers' opium crops. After those antidrug offensives, Dempsey says, "local...
...Dempsey believes farmers could be better persuaded to give up growing opium and cannabis if Western and Afghan officials introduced big incentives and subsidies for growing food crops and helped farmers sell them. One crucial problem, he says, is that the roads in southern Afghanistan are too dangerous for farmers to drive their crops to local markets. Groups of armed drug traffickers, meanwhile, travel through the countryside, buying opium and cannabis at the farm gates for cash. For many farmers in the area, making a living and staying alive - sadly - go hand in hand...