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Iraqi Kurds have been in control of their region since 1991, when, with the help of the U.S.-enforced no-fly zone, they drove Saddam's forces out of northern Iraq. But now, four years after the liberation of the rest of the country, Kurdish Iraq is undergoing an identity crisis. On the one hand, it is a rare success story in the Middle East: a stable territory run by a secular leadership committed to economic and political reform and sitting on a huge pool of oil. On the other hand, it is tiny and landlocked, uncomfortably attached...
...until 12 batters later. Freshmen Lauren Murphy got things started when, with the bases loaded, she knocked a line drive through the Holy Cross shortstop’s legs, a costly error that scored two runs. The following two batters, junior Danielle Kerper and freshmen Jessica Pledger, each drove in a run before Winkeller capped off the inning with her three run blast. The bottom of the fourth inning was more of the same, as the Harvard offense lit up the Crusaders for five more runs. When Holy Cross failed to score in the top of the fifth the game...
...college, but was trying to get her own life back on track after some problems with drugs and had begun work as a legal assistant. After Jennifer failed to return home from a dinner out with Pitonyak, Sharon, a Corpus Christi small business owner, and her boyfriend, Jim Sedwick, drove to Austin and began the search. When a tip led them to Pitonyak's apartment, police declined to enter the locked door with no evidence of a crime. Instead, Sedwick broke in and soon came out to tell Cave he had found Jennifer, recognizing the freckles on her daughter...
...snub, Haviland jokingly said, “I didn’t notice that,” before deciding not to comment. But he did laud his team’s efforts against his counterpart. “He’s a fastball-changeup guy, and they just drove him the other way over and over again,” he said. “Our hitters did a great job against a very good pitcher.” Harvard coach Joe Walsh echoed the sentiment. “I’m really pleased that we knocked Staehely...
...past two seasons.“Obviously, I’m excited by the home run,” Kidder said. “I don’t go up trying to hit home runs. I just connected on a good pitch.”Kidder also drove in runs in the first and seventh inning. Her single in the first scored senior shortstop Lauren Brown, while her bases-loaded walk in the final frame brought in sophomore Bailey Vertovez.“She was a real spark plug for us,” Allard said of Kidder.On...