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...despite her strong Democratic credentials, the charismatic Barend still manages to draw support from Republicans...
Instead of an easy draw that pits the Eagles against the Purple Eagles (Niagara), Boston College should be punished with a first round date against Notre Dame, a team that beat BC on its own ice this season, or perhaps even Harvard. Instead of a tight contest pitting the two hottest teams in the nation, Maine should be skating against a Holy Cross or a Niagara, not the Crimson. The polls, and by extension the people, say so. Here’s hoping the NCAA will learn to listen to that human element...
...many events at Harvard draw House Masters, tutors and throngs of fans. Even fewer of them net a moose...
...Despite its ideological affinity with the global jihadi cause, analysts believe Hamas had previously rebuffed efforts to draw it directly into the al-Qaeda orbit. Some in the organization have advocated attacking American targets, but their position has been in the minority. Hamas leaders had wanted to maintain their independence and also to profit from the wider Arab sympathy engendered by its position as an exclusively Palestinian-national movement targeting the Israelis (as opposed to becoming just another local chapter of Osama bin Laden's global jihad). The movement's headquarters is in Damascus, which despite its frosty relations with...
...less eager to launch attacks," says Tom Foley, an investment banker from Greenwich, Conn., who runs private-sector development for the coalition in Baghdad. His argument may not be proved for years. But the belief that companies can help foster democracy while earning money has been a strong draw for Iraqi emigres. After decades of exile in the U.S., Sabah Khesbak, 50, flew home to Baghdad last October and landed a $500,000 contract for his engineering company in Tustin, Calif., to design four suspension bridges in northern Iraq...