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Behind the scoring of the Olympic trio—captain Jennifer Botterill, junior captain Angela Ruggiero and freshman winger Julie Chu—Harvard (17-1-0) took an early lead and deflated any chance of a Mercyhurst rally en route to a 5-2 victory...
...afternoon (Iraq time), I saw clear signs of preparations in the scores of small mud-and-brick forts that line the strategically important road. Officials were not immediately available for comment, and there had been no announcement of any specific military build-up. But when I passed this way en route to Basra only three days ago, most of the forts were empty or thinly manned. Now they were abuzz with activity...
...airlines. With passenger traffic already down 9% from 2000, they're now caught in a nasty squabble over "open skies" agreements that would widen competition on lucrative transatlantic routes. E.U. courts banned the individually negotiated deals between 11 member states and the U.S., saying they should be arranged en bloc. When the U.S. appeared to undercut that decision by offering to sweeten the deals, François Lamoureux, the Commission's director-general for transport, threatened last week to drag into court any state that accepts. But E.U. efforts to draw up a new deal aren't expected to break...
...Cerretani not made it to Cambridge, the Crimson’s dominance amongst the nine competing schools—including Ivy League rivals Brown, Princeton and Dartmouth—would have been unchallenged. Unfortunately for Harvard, Cerretani single-handedly knocked four Crimson players out of the A singles flight en route to the title and, along with Chris Drake, beat Harvard pairs in all four of his matches in the doubles draw...
...assert their independence, thereby inciting Turkish Kurds to follow suit. Still, Turkey has strong historical ties with the U.S. and counts on Washington's backing for further IMF assistance. The pro-Islamic government would probably allow the U.S. to use some air bases and would support special forces en route to Iraq but not the transit of large numbers of ground troops...