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With U.S. troops tied up fighting insurgents, the task of containing the killings has fallen to Iraqi police, who complain that they are undermanned and outgunned. Some Iraqis warn that the cycle may escalate as U.S. forces pull back from Iraqi cities. "The Americans cannot leave suddenly," says a former official in the mukhabarat. "It will be everyone against everyone...
Tending to the Fallen...
...Anthea Fallen-Bailey, 47, had mapped a course for employment after receiving her master's degree in geography in the summer of 2001, and it did not include the Great Plains. Struggling with a flat job market around Portland, Ore.--"there was nothing there"--she happened on a job posting for Navigation Technologies, a digital mapping firm. "I was really surprised they were in Fargo," she says. After a month of researching the company and the area, she applied and was quickly offered the job in July...
While the team is wary of being overconfident, history is clearly in Harvard’s favor. The Crimson have fallen to the Eagles only once in the past six years, winning the other eight games. Harvard plans to utilize their depth against the physical Purple Eagles...
...ball in great field position at the Penn 45-yard line. Schires remained in the game while Fitzpatrick’s leg was undergoing observation. (Knowing what we do about Fitzpatrick’s toughness, his temporary absence from the game must have meant that his leg had fallen off below the knee, and doctors were working furiously to reattach it.) After three plays and a net loss of one yard, the Crimson punted away its second golden opportunity of the third quarter...