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Unsurprisingly, the anxiety didn’t show. Brown put together a beauty of an Ancient Eight start, tallying 14 of her 21 outs by strikeout while allowing only two base-runners in a one-hitter. The league dominance continued Monday against Penn, when she had yet another strong game, surrendering one run on seven hits to reach double-digit wins for the season...
...very few civilians, Ramadi was "a much blurrier battle, a classic urban counterinsurgency, a never-ending series of engagements throughout the heart of a teeming city where our faceless enemies blended seamlessly into a surrounding populace of nearly 35,000 civilians." In Joker One, Campbell writes of his almost eight months in Iraq, with all the blood and confusion that one expects from a commander who has had his boots on the ground. ("See a TIME photographer's Iraq photo diary...
...thrilling victory of the day.In an offensive slugfest that saw 29 hits and five balls clear the fence—four off of Crimson bats—Harvard had to climb out of a hole again due to a three-run Penn first inning against the starter Zailskas. An eight-run sixth, which chased Zailskas and battered freshman reliever Will Keuper, seemed to doom the Crimson before the late offensive eruption.“Our offense salvaged us today with long balls,” Harvard coach Joe Walsh said. “We?...
...just in time for the start of the Ivy season, the Crimson beat the Quakers after splitting a weekend series with Columbia, in which the team was limited to only one run in two games. But the bats were on fire for Harvard yesterday—the team scored eight runs on 19 hits to overpower its Penn counterparts.“It feels really good to have a winning record after our first weekend out,” co-captain Hayley Bock said yesterday. “We were pretty motivated to come out against Penn after splitting with...
...After eight hours of fierce gun battles, Pakistani security forces are claiming victory against as yet unidentified gunmen who attacked a police-training facility on the outskirts of Lahore - the country's second largest city and cultural hub - in a siege that Pakistani media is comparing to the Mumbai massacre in India last November. At least 13 police trainees were killed and more than 90 people were injured and taken to hospitals. The death toll is expected to rise, as bodies still need to be recovered from inside the building. More than 400 trainees are believed to have been present...