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...Sunshine State may be too hot for the Crimson to handle. This weekend, the Harvard women’s tennis team (4-6) headed south to Miami and Ft. Myers, Fla. to compete against No. 52 Florida International and Florida Gulf Coast. The nationally-ranked Golden Panthers (11-5) and the Florida weather were too big of obstacles to overcome, and the Crimson dropped the match 6-1. But the next day, a rejuvenated Harvard heated up the courts, taking down the Eagles (1-11) in a decisive 6-1 victory. HARVARD 6, FLORIDA GULF COAST 1 With a night?...
...year as they did in all of the last one. By Thanksgiving, 330 districts - including Las Vegas; Albuquerque, N.M.; and San Bernardino, Calif. - had equaled or surpassed the previous year's total. At these rates, 2008-09 could top the 2005-06 academic year, when Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Gulf Coast and 1 in 50 American children experienced homelessness, according to another report released this month. (See pictures of the bridge collapse in Minneapolis...
...want to keep money in the U.S., then sending it overseas for oil and gas is counterproductive. Yet the Obama budget includes a 13% excise tax on offshore oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the domestic oil and gas industry at a time when we should be encouraging it to return resources home to America. The various tax increases in the Obama budget combine to form as great a threat to economic growth as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff - in effect a huge tax increase on consumers - did in the 1930s. Obama needs to slow down, recognize...
...from gathering such intelligence. Both sides claim legal cover for their actions, which suggests that similar showdowns will occur in the future. But such events, far from home and with few if any independent eyewitnesses, can quickly escalate into more serious confrontations - as in the case of the Gulf of Tonkin "attack" by North Vietnamese patrol boats against a pair of U.S. Navy destroyers that President Lyndon B. Johnson used as a pretext to win congressional support for his war in Vietnam. (See pictures of China's border war with Vietnam...
...trafficking routes are both local and international, and most often connect to Syria, Jordan and the gulf (primarily the United Arab Emirates). The victims are trafficked either illegally on forged passports or "legally" through forced marriages. A married female, even one as young as 14, raises few suspicions if she's traveling with her "husband." The girls are then divorced upon arrival and put to work. (See Iraq's return to normality...