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...United States military put its most dangerous enemy on the run. In 2008 it may face an even more entrenched foe. Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the primary target of the American troop surge and counter-insurgency strategy, appears to be on its last legs after a year of being attacked from all sides. But Shi'ite militias, which have deep roots in Iraq's Shi'a communities and the Shi'ite-dominated government, may now pose a more serious long-term threat...
...between these two armies. They fought each other in 1962, and have not exactly warmed to one another in the decades since, for much of which India was close to China's erstwhile communist rival, the Soviet Union, while China has been a reliable ally of India's arch-foe, Pakistan. "The two sides will be like two porcupines facing each other," says Delhi-based security analyst C. Uday Bhaskar, "They have had little contact for 40 years, and a negative perception of the other still prevails, more so, perhaps, on the Indian side...
...succeeded in the third period. It’s a huge accomplishment for us to know that we can be down and not give up.”The Crimson now heads into an almost three-week layoff before resuming play with a game against Ivy League foe Cornell on Jan. 4 at Bright Hockey Center. “We’ve had a great first half of the season and we need to remember that going into 2008,” Stone said.—Staff writer Rebecca A. Compton can be reached at compton@fas.harvard.edu...
...then-No. 18 Catamounts give the Crimson its first home loss in a non-ECAC game since 2001.Fast-forward to Saturday night, when a ranked Harvard squad traveled to Gutterson Fieldhouse seeking to bolster its overall record and test its mettle against a Hockey East (and former ECAC) foe. Though the No. 13 Crimson came out buzzing, launching 12 shots in the first period and 26 in the second, Spillane was virtually impenetrable in his second start of the season as he covered the crease with little sign of his relative inexperience.Spillane made his best save of the opening frame...
...just the intelligence community that had been trying to prevent the war hawks in the Administration from bombing Iran. The Secretaries of State and Defense and the leaders of the uniformed military had decided that diplomacy was the best way to deal with an admittedly hostile and dangerous foe in Tehran. Almost exactly a year ago, after the firing of Donald Rumsfeld, the President met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the "Tank," the Pentagon's secure facility. Bush asked the Chiefs about attacking Iran. He was told that a bombing campaign could do severe damage to Iran...