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...begins: yet another fight-to-the-finish, nothing-comes-easy Ivy season for the Harvard women’s basketball team...
...first, though the Crimson would finish with 13 shots in the first period and 34 shots on the game. But Yale’s hustling and scrappy defense kept the puck in the Harvard zone for most of the game and forced Crimson to rush looks and fight for the puck in the corners when the team did manage to mount attacks in the Yale zone.The Bulldogs’ aggressive play drew seven Harvard penalties on the night, including several in the second period, interrupting the momentum that the Crimson struggled to build all night. Yale successfully killed...
...Palestinian casualties rise - by Sunday over 860 had died in the fighting compared to 13 Israelis - worldwide cries for a ceasefire are reaching a crescendo. But in Israel, nearly everyone supports the war, in large part because every Israeli knows someone who has been called up to fight, or someone who lives within range of Hamas' rockets...
...Israel plans to fight on until it is satisfied that it has choked off the possibility of Hamas rearming itself via smuggling from Egypt. But Hamas believes it is winning the political battle. The Hamas official in Damascus said the organization believes Israel played into Hamas' hands by attacking Gaza, earning Israel international criticism and strengthening Hamas' position among Palestinians and in the wider Arab world. "The destruction is such that nobody will dare to mention peace with the Israelis for the next 10 years," he said...
...that the Lebanese militant group Hizballah might be opening up a second front. But Hizballah denied firing the rockets, and most observers concur that the Shi'ite group was unlikely to have been responsible. Hizballah would probably have fired a much larger fusillade were it looking to join the fight, and it would be unlikely to risk its considerable political gains in Lebanon since the 2006 war by provoking a new Israeli attack. The more likely culprit in this instance is one of the many Palestinian splinter factions based in Lebanon, which is home to some 400,000 Palestinian refugees...