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Entering the 2007 season after missing its shot at the playoffs in 2006, the Crimson was eager to regain its former glory and to improve upon last season’s lackluster performance...
...rosters. Doug Kocis ’05 and Jake McKenna ’04 were selected in the league’s supplemental draft, Kocis to Long Island in 2006 and McKenna to San Francisco this year.As the Crimson’s first-ever MLL draftee, however, Flood is eager to take advantage of the opportunity.“I’m really excited,” he said. “It’s a little far from New York, but I’m just excited to play with the best lacrosse players in the world...
...addition to the generosity of student patrons, The Crimson attributed the rise of drama at Harvard, in part, to the post-WWII influx of eager thespians, whose numbers had been depleted during the war. The HDC’s creation of a training program preparing novice actors to tread the Harvard boards also contributed to the increasing popularity of Harvard dramatics...
...younger support militant Islamic groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad. These radicals led the charge during the second intifadeh, which began in 2000, sending suicide bombers to blow up hundreds of Israeli civilians. Militants say that in the camp they have no shortage of young volunteers eager for martyrdom. As a parent, Omar says the last thing he wants is for his young kids to heed the fatal, seductive call of the suicide-bomb recruiters...
...Officials meeting in London over the last two days have reportedly made little headway, but both sides are eager to make further progress before President George W. Bush meets Singh on the G8 sidelines in Germany on June 7. For that to happen, says Burns, both countries will need to make some "compromises...