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However, junior midfielder Kate McDavitt—last week’s Ivy Player of the Week—took advantage of a brief Friar defensive breakdown in the 64th minute when she received the ball in front and drove it cleanly to the back of the cage, putting the game out of reach...

Author: By Wes Kauble, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Divines Easy Shutout | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

That's exactly what happened in October 2000 in the southern port of Aden, when an al-Qaeda suicide squad drove a boat laden with explosives into the destroyer U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 American sailors. Earlier this month, Pakistani officials arrested Ramzi Binalshibh, an al-Qaeda operative from Yemen who U.S. investigators believe helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks. U.S. officials also say al-Qaeda used Yemen's honey trade as a cover to raise cash and smuggle weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter From Yemen: An Unruly Backwater Tries Going Straight | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...diluted the faith Kashmiris have in it. Their moderate Sufi-based culture and value system is still the predominant ethic despite their persecution. One of the more startling findings of the Nielsen poll was that more than 95% of the valley's Muslims found the ethnic cleansing that drove Kashmiri Hindus out in the '90s repugnant; they wanted to see this authentic Kashmiri Hindu community resettled. This is a view with serious political implications, since a return of the Hindu population means renewal of a plural society. Of course, plenty of Kashmiri Muslims want azaadi?independence?but they too believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exerting Moral Force | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...left in the second half, and the game still knotted up at two goals apiece, junior midfielder Kate McDavitt scored her second goal of the game to put the Crimson up for good. As her freshman sister Jen McDavitt centered the ball, Kate McDavitt dove to the ground and drove the ball past the goalie for her seventh and most spectacular score of the season...

Author: By Wes Kauble, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McDavitt’s Pretty Goal Caps Sloppy Victory | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...rescued 160 schoolchildren from a rebel-held city after a military uprising turned into a civil war. The children, including 100 Americans, were trapped for a week inside their boarding school in the country's second-biggest city, Bouake, by heavy fighting between government and rebel troops. French soldiers drove the children to their base at an airport near the capital, Yamoussoukro, 65 km to the south. U.S. special forces in C-130 cargo planes had arrived hours earlier to evacuate the children and other Westerners to neighboring Ghana. MIDDLE EAST Siege of Ramallah Israel defied U.S. criticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 9/29/2002 | See Source »

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