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...IRGC's rise presents both threats and opportunities. The sepah is responsible for the very things that most concern Washington: Iran's drive for nuclear weapons and its support of terrorism. Guardsmen hold several key positions in the Supreme National Security Council, through which they are thought to control the levers of Iran's nuclear and missile programs. And an IRGC unit known as the Quds Force provides training and weapons to Hizballah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Palestinian territories and the Mahdi Army in Iraq. But some analysts think that growing commercial interests may have taken the edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Quiet Coup | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...International Olympic Committee (IOC) meet in Copenhagen to award the 2016 Games. Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo are the other contenders, and boosters say the Second City has a fighting chance. First, it offers a compact proposal: about 90% of the athletes would compete within a 15-minute drive of the proposed Olympic Village site, not far from Chicago's downtown. Many events would take place in city parks, and most new facilities - including the 80,000-seat Olympic Stadium, scheduled for the South Side's Washington Park - would be temporary, a strategy intended to avert the Olympics' worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago's Olympic Dreams | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...Mountain Hawks, who were looking to avoid their first 0-4 start since the 1982 season, got off on the right foot. On the first drive of the game, Lum took his team 83 yards to an early lead...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fired Up | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

Senior Ryan Barnes made Harvard’s first pick of the day late in the first quarter, putting the Crimson on its own 37-yard line. And from there, the tag team of junior quarterback Collier Winters and senior running back Cheng Ho led the drive that would even the score...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fired Up | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

After Ho rushed for 13 yards early in the drive, he connected with Winters for a 13-yard touchdown pass with 12:46 remaining in the half...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fired Up | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

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