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...impulses for the region. Over the next decade two Presidents, anxious for a counterforce to Iran's fundamentalist ambitions, gave diplomatic, financial and military assistance to the secular, "modernist" regime of Iraq's Saddam Hussein. By 1990, with Saddam in Kuwait and threatening the Saudis, the U.S. realized the error of its ways and dispatched half a million troops to help free Kuwait from the grip of its neighbor Iraq. Surely, we assumed, the response among Muslims would be one of gratitude. Instead we got Osama bin Laden's homicidal fury at the "desecration" of the holy lands by "infidels...
...after the Golden Panthers’ leadoff man reached on an error, Harvard coach Joe Walsh went to Wahlberg. The Crimson closer walked the first batter he faced, then gave up a two-run double to Skipton Adams. Those runs proved to be the difference, as Harvard dropped to 3-6 on the season...
...passing on information such as which drugs worked best on the mainland, Chinese officials might have saved other researchers from weeks of agonizing trial and error. Dr. Ronald Low, microbiologist in chief at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, believes that earlier Chinese disclosure of case histories could have accelerated development of a treatment. Low says that since his hospital started administering the antiviral medicine ribavirin, patients have stopped dying. "So far, all the patients on this treatment are still alive," he says, "and most of them are showing improvement...
...There's no margin for error when you play a team as good as Cornell,” captain Dominic Moore said. “We’ve got to do whatever it takes to avoid a start like that one tomorrow night...
...fifth Crimson skater eventually realized the error and hurried to the bench, it became obvious to the Vermont bench, the Catamounts’ fans and most observers in the arena that Harvard had too many men on the ice for several seconds...