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When I was but a wee lad of eight, a devious coach whipped a baseball at my head. The force of the pitch knocked me to the ground and changed me forever. No, I didn’t lose brain cells from the trauma. And no, it doesn’t explain my huge nose. Instead, I learned that athletes are simply wicked people...
...fifth of the season, he leads the team in scoring. “Max made a really big play at beginning of the third quarter and that gave us a ton of confidence,” Tillman said of the junior, who also tied his career high with four ground balls in Saturday’s game. From there, the team would rally to net a total of six unanswered goals, stretching the Harvard lead to 7-2. Nasty conditions combined with Harvard’s no-nonsense defense helped to keep the first period scoreless...
...would do whatever it took to win. More substantively, in an appearance on the BBC, Power seemed to indicate that Obama's commitment to expeditiously withdraw American forces from Iraq was a campaign plan that would not necessarily guide his actions as President, particularly if conditions on the ground in Iraq changed and led to alternative recommendations from the Pentagon...
...places like the Basque Country or Cataluña, the nationalist parties lost ground to the Socialists," says Ismael Crespo, political scientist at the University of Murcia. "That could be because the Socialists have brought their policies closer into line with nationalists, or because more nationalists in those regions abstained from voting...
...trouble is that this ground-level military solution may be in conflict with other government efforts to reduce the violence and foster stability in Iraq. The Karrada bombing came on the heels of a state visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and struck a neighborhood that is home to Iraq's largest Shi'ite political party and many Shi'ite government officials. The timing and location of this bombing may have been a coincidence, but Karrada makes a nice target for Sunni militants who frame their fight as a struggle against Iranian domination...