Word: drives
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...Crimson found its rhythm again in freshman Peter Boehm, whose three-pointer brought the game back to one point. It was not enough to grab another lead, though, and Harvard never came back on top. The Crimson’s best chance to come back came on a missed drive to the basket by Boehm, in which a questionable call by the referee led to neither a foul nor a block. Northeastern was allowed an inbounds play and possession that led to victory...
...wake of the 2007 incident in which six such guards were responsible for the murders of 17 innocent Iraqis on a drive through Baghdad’s Nisoor Square, company spokespeople and the Pentagon have endlessly reminded the American public of the special exigencies of war, and the vital role that entities like Blackwater have in filling the gaps that an overstretched military cannot plug...
...returned from Afghanistan Nov. 26. He also said that the U.S. government has effectively created and continues to support a shadow state in Afghanistan by hiring private security guards, who are employed and controlled by war lords. “There are a lot of places where you can drive by in your tank in the middle of the day without getting shot at, but the people that you are driving by are more afraid of the Taliban than they are of you,” he said. Galasco, a senior military analyst for the Human Rights Watch, said...
This is not the first time warlords have had positions of power in Afghanistan. Following the 1989 withdrawal of Soviet troops, rival mujahedin groups that had united to drive the foreigners out turned on each other, further destroying the country in a brutal civil war marked by warlord rule. The government collapsed, and militia commanders were able to seize territory, terrorize the population and, in some cases, even issue currency. The Taliban capitalized on widespread disgust with their savagery, eventually coming to power in 1996. The U.S., unwilling to commit large numbers of ground troops when it went to overthrow...
...This perseverance and drive has carried the daughter of a United Nations economist—who took her first step on American soil when she arrived at Harvard in the early 1970s—through three decades on the upper echelon of global economics. And as a top official at the World Bank in this time of economic duress, the Harvard alumna with a reputation for her focus and passion is now working harder than ever...