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...actually been under way for several weeks, as Afghan and Western forces have announced their plans to the local population while moving into position. Pentagon officials say this unusually public "shaping" of the battlefield has one key goal: while hundreds of hard-core Taliban are hunkering down for a fight, many more, along with thousands of residents, have fled Marja until the dust settles. That should limit civilian casualties and, they hope, lure some lukewarm Taliban over to the government side. "We're not interested in how many Taliban we kill," Army General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S., commander...
...Crimson also suffered losses at the No. 3 and 4 positions. Junior June Tiong tried to fight back in the third game but couldn’t overcome the Tigers’ Jackie Moss, losing her match, 11-6, 11-8, 12-10. Princeton’s Emery Maine also looked sharp as she defeated junior Alisha Mashruwala in a sweep...
...those fighter-type players,” Green said. “She will fight for every ball. She’ll be out there as long as she needs to be. That’s the kind of person you need out there...
...different players scored in the two-day event, led by sophomore Devan Kennifer, who tallied 15 goals total. Kennifer’s classmate, McCarthy, made 10 saves the first day to help Harvard fight back from deficits in each of the four games...
...centuries-long struggle between Western civilization and Eastern barbarism. "This is almost like a race war, like a cultural war," he said about 9/11, the March 2004 Spanish subway bombings and the now lengthening conflict in Iraq. "And anyone who is my age who is not going to go fight in it is a coward. They can say it's about this or that, but it's really about religion. It's about not even which culture is going to rule the Middle East, but which culture is going to rule the West. I felt like Islam...