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...preparing for the endgame. In Baqubah, General Odierno had told the Iraqis, "It's up to you to make sure [al-Qaeda] doesn't come back." One could only wonder about the fate of Sunni insurgents who had turned against the jihadis. Soon they would be facing a new foe, an Iraqi army and local police that have been notoriously awful in Diyala province - riddled with Shi'ite death squads, incompetence and corruption. Petraeus' "all in" bet relies on the police recruits squatting sullenly in Yusufia, indulging his cheerleading - "Are you ready to fight for your country?" Certainly, they were...
...Still Portman's replacement, Jim Nussle, former chair of the House Budget committee, is expected to take a hard-line approach. Many Democrats view him as a particularly combative foe who could push for a standoff after Congress sends its spending bills to the President's desk. "They've put the guy in charge who is the Congressional architect of this mess," says Rep. Obey of Nussle. "To me that is a recipe for confrontation...
...success came despite losing last year’s top player Lily Lorentzen, who transferred to Stanford after winning the ISA title as a freshman. The Crimson cruised through the early stages of the Ivy season before encountering a much greater challenge against perennial contender and nonconference foe Trinity. Harvard pulled out a win against the Bantams in front of a rowdy home crowd on the strength of an impressive comeback from Duboc. With the two teams knotted at four matches apiece and the senior down, 0-2, Duboc fought her way back from the brink of elimination to eventually...
Despite a dominant season in which it swept through the majority of league competition, the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team could not overcome league foe Princeton, as the Crimson finished second to the Tigers in both the regular season and the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships...
...team faced off against Brown in the second round. The rematch played out differently, as the Bears dashed Harvard’s championship hopes with a 9-4 victory. The men rebounded the next day to salvage a third-place finish over crosstown rival MIT. At Easterns, Ivy League foe Princeton squeaked by Harvard with a narrow 9-8 victory. In the second matchup, the Crimson succumbed again to Johns Hopkins, which walked away with a 11-7 victory in a tightly contested match. In the end, Harvard, after entering the tournament seeded seventh, finished in seventh place, beating...