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Leading by five goals with four and half minutes remaining in the contest, the men’s lacrosse team appeared to have the game all but won. But UMass (3-2) had other ideas, going on a 4-0 run in the final minutes and turning what was a sure defeat into a nail-biter...
...didn’t do a good job of managing the game late,” Crimson coach John Tillman said. “If you have a five goal lead with 4 and half minutes to play, you should not be worried about it being a one goal game…We can’t manage the game the way that we did down the stretch...
Curious about whom we did beat? Even with its sunny weather, Stanford University was ranked third, with a yield of 71 percent. The rest of the top five was filled by University of Nebraska-Lincoln at fourth, and Yale University at fifth. Another institution with a religious draw, Yeshiva University, came in at sixth...
...Zaeef took a different route. The ex-commander with a scholarly side who had risen in the Taliban government to become a deputy minister of mines, and the ambassador to Pakistan shortly before 9/11, now writes books on the Afghanistan conflict. Published in five languages, Zaeef's latest book, My Life with the Taliban, has received noteworthy mention in the New York Review of Books and the New Yorker. And his message to the U.S. and his erstwhile Taliban comrades is that the conflict in Afghanistan will have to be settled through negotiation. "I believe that is the only solution...
...presumably referring to the U.S.: President Obama declared in a speech last week that he wanted to double U.S. exports over the next five years and challenged China to adopt a "market-oriented exchange rate" for its currency, the renminbi. But the policies that Wen was criticizing are in many respects what China has pursued for years. The renminbi has been pegged against the dollar since mid-2008, and overseas economists say the currency may be undervalued by as much as 40%. Trade is a key component of economic growth for China, the world's largest exporter, and the government...