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...sixth, the Harvard offense did little to help rookie hurler Jonah Klees, who mirrored his afternoon counterpart by overcoming early struggles to pitch effectively.Despite walking the first two batters of the game on eight pitches and allowing a runner to reach in each of the first four innings, Klees held the Bears in check with well placed side-arm breaking balls on the inside part of the plate. The rookie yielded three earned runs and only five hits through six innings, but could not outduel Gormley.“[Gormley] was very good,” Walsh said...
...Legal Counsel—a group of lawyers who provide binding legal advice to the executive branch. However, in order to truly close the book on the dark days of America’s endorsement of torture, Obama should go further and see that those who committed torture are held accountable for their actions...
...Many thousands of civilians have been forced to flee since fighting started in March 2008, when the Sri Lankan army began advancing on areas held by the Tigers in the northern region known as the Vanni. Over 65,000 civilians have since braved the fighting and escaped to safety behind army lines, and another 10,000 sick and wounded civilians and caregivers have been evacuated by sea by the International Committee of the Red Cross...
...moves in and civilians move out of the zone, close-quarter fighting is all but a certainty. But there is likely to be heavy resistance from the Tigers who would literally be fighting a battle for survival. "This is the end of the Tamil Tigers," Hulugalle tells TIME. "They held these civilians by force for so long, but they cannot do that any longer." Just two years ago, the Tigers held vast swaths of land in the country's north, but have now been limited to a 20 sq km (7.7 sq mi) coastal zone surrounded by the military...
...western countries - including the U.S. - to extend the truce. "The process of the complete defeat of the LTTE has just begun," President Rajapakse told AFP news agency on Monday morning, as he watched footage of the exodus obtained by UAVs showing long lines of civilians crossing over to army-held areas. "It is now all over for the Tigers." The Defense Ministry later termed the latest flood of civilian escapees "the world's largest hostage rescue mission...