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...Nice job by defender Cori Bassett, who repels a BU fast break by staying in front of Terriers forward Jillian Kirchner and blocking a hard slap shot...
...period comes to a close, the Crimson misses out on a nice scoring opportunity. Ryabkina came down on a fast break with some room but made a pass to no one in particular that killed the chance...
...Though Union rallied to score two goals in the third period, Harvard’s special teams went 4-for-4 on the penalty kill and the defense withstood the Dutchmen’s final assault to preserve the win as the Crimson’s fast start proved to be enough to secure the win.The victory gives the team a three- game winning streak over an opponent that has lost only once in its past ten games prior to Saturday night and shows that good results will eventually come when players crash the opposing net early and often...
...Pentagon is busy pulling out the five combat brigades that "surged" to Iraq last year and helped quell the violence. But many Americans want that withdrawal to continue beyond the 30,000 troops added for the surge. Not so fast, says General David Petraeus, top U.S. commander in Iraq, urging a pause to evaluate the impact of the removal of those five brigades before sending more troops home. This weekend, Defense Secretary Robert Gates backed Petraeus, meaning that when the U.S. troop contingent in Iraq drops from the current 158,000 to about 130,000 in July, it could remain...
...asked Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, at a hearing last week if doing that wouldn't break the Army. "The real opportunity to reduce the tours to 12 months would be seriously compromised if, in fact, we commit to 15 brigades indefinitely," Reed said. Not so fast, Mullen countered: "We think it's actually doable." The growth in the Army and unspecified "assumptions" may make it possible to cut the 15-month deployments down to 12 months even if the U.S. pullout stalls at 130,000 troops for awhile, he said...