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...Bears battled back. One minute after Harvard scored, Brown notched a goal on a deflection off a penalty corner. Then, with ten minutes left in regulation, a one-timer from Bears forward Abigail Taft tied the score and sent the game into overtime...
...shots on goal, seemed to be generated from the midfield, from Carly, and from corners,” Caples said...
...overtime, the game suddenly ended when Keating converted on the counterattack. The game-winning goal, Keating’s second of the day, was her team-leading eighth score of the season...
...Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is fundamental to the defense of our people. Obamas Af-Pak plan is, in essence, a countersanctuary strategy that denies safe havens to the Taliban and al-Qaeda, with the overriding goal of making America and its allies safer. Under Obama, the Pentagon has already sent a surge of 21,000 troops to Afghanistan, and the Administration is even weighing the possibility of deploying as many as 40,000 more. (See pictures of a photographer's personal journey through...
...Perhaps most fundamental, the middle way avoids the quicksand on which the counterinsurgency strategy is built: the absolute need for nation-building. Counterinsurgency strategy requires clearing and holding territory, which cannot be done without transforming a corruption-riddled, anarchic and poverty-stricken state into a functioning market democracy. That goal is totally beyond American interests and capabilities and promises only endless war. Nor does the all-out approach help us in Pakistan, whose leaders continue to nurture long-standing alliances with the Taliban as a counterweight to India, Islamabad's real worry. Finally, the all-outers slight the U.S. voters...