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...warlords whom the U.S. relied on to fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda were involved in the drug trade. Now, officials say, the Obama Administration is taking a tough approach to drugs in Afghanistan, sparing no one, not even friends and associates of President Hamid Karzai. "Everyone's fair game," says a Western counternarcotics official in Kabul. "If someone comes within reach of our investigation, nothing is going to stop us from making a case." (See pictures of the presidential election in Afghanistan...
Lionel Shriver has a history of conjuring up cranks and complainers who see everything wrong with the human condition. She usually manages to turn these characters into dark delights, whether they are the demographer in Game Control blithely planning a pandemic or the brittle mother in We Need to Talk About Kevin who abhors her child. Brilliantly funny and a superb plotter, Shriver is a master of the misanthrope...
After starting out in a 5-0 hole, the Crimson tightened the game to 12-10 off two foul shots by junior forward Emma Markley. But Harvard would get no closer for the rest of the game, as the Orange used a 17-4 run to put the game permanently out of reach with 8:57 left in the first half...
Alexander, who gave Harvard so much trouble in the first half, was virtually taken out of the game in the second, scoring only six points and converting just one field goal...
Berry finished the game second on the all-time single-season assist list with 169 helpers...