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...repeated his protests until the soldiers loaded their detainee into an armored personnel carrier and drove him to a nearby Iraqi National Police station. The stated mission of the U.S. Military in Iraq is to support and advise the fledgling Iraqi security forces. All detainees, therefore, are supposed to be processed through the Iraqi Army or Police, of which there are several, often competing, varieties, national and local...
...play, the Crimson seemed to have little reason to worry. But after a missed first shot and a Bears layup on the other end, it was 59-58 with 47 seconds to play. But Harvard still had a shot to put the game out of reach, when Housman drove to the hoop and pulled up for an eight-footer. It clanked off the rim, and Brown took possession with 11 seconds left in the game.What happened next seemed an inevitability. Bears sophomore Garrett Leffleman, who had gone 0-5 from three point range before the shot, launched a desperation three...
...opening period when senior attacker Jim Connolly sent a pass across the crease to teammate Bobby Hayes. From 15 yards out, Hayes ripped a shot top-shelf past Harvard goaltender Joe Pike. Three minutes later, the Minutemen got another goal. Connolly, the team’s leading scorer, drove from behind the net and fired a low shot into the cage, his first of two goals on the day. Down 2-0, the Crimson answered. Sophomore attacker Dean Gibbons cradled the ball behind the net before circling around the crease, faking high, and sneaking it by UMass goalie Doc Schneider...
...second half, passing the 1000-point mark for his career, while freshmen guard Oliver McNally and forward Keith Wright tallied 16 and 11 respectively.One of Housman’s hoops came at the end of the first half. With his team down one, he brought the ball up, drove the lane, and threw up a shot that rattled in at the buzzer, giving his guys a 33-32 lead at the break. The stage looked set for a nail-biting second half, but the Crimson would not follow the script.“We had twenty minutes left...
...puck past Kessler for the opening goal—sending the large contingent of Engineers supporters into raptures.Minutes later, their lead over a shell-shocked Crimson was doubled. Receiving a pass around the left, Naslund found space in front of the Harvard goal. With defensemen backing off, the forward drove the puck beyond Kessler into the top-right corner for her second of the game.Faced with a two-goal deficit, Harvard got the best possible response from Wilson—the forward restored to the second line following illness.At 16:11, Wilson picked up a pass from McDonald...