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They say that defense wins games, and the Harvard softball team learned that the hard way yesterday. Though the Crimson (21-13, 7-5 Ivy) offense was firing on all cylinders, it wasn’t enough to hold off a late-inning rally from Boston College (15-24, 1-8 ACC). Eagles sophomore Allison Kooistra led off the bottom of the seventh inning with a shot over the center-field fence, giving her team the 7-6 walkoff win at Shea Field in Chestnut Hill.“We’re excited we found our offense today?...
...legal memorandum for the CIA, prepared by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, reviewed 10 enhanced techniques for interrogating Zubaydah, and determined that none of them constituted torture under U.S. criminal law. The techniques were: attention grasp, walling (hitting a detainee against a flexible wall), facial hold, facial slap, cramped confinement, wall standing, stress positions, sleep deprivation, insects placed in a confinement box, and waterboarding.(View pictures of life inside Guantanamo...
Guatemala has long been a drug transshipment point between South and North America. But only in recent years have investigators begun to see how firmly a narco-economy is taking hold there, which is always bad news for small, poor and corrupt countries like Guatemala. Experts say it's hard to know just how much the Guatemalan economy depends on drug profits, but they agree that it's a significant source of employment and capital today. If trafficking and related businesses were shut down, unemployment would skyrocket in certain parts of the country, like La Reforma, says Leonel Ruiz, second...
...will choose its leadership by vote rather than by appointment, and he has pledged to increase the number of people under 35 who run for office on Congress tickets. Opening up the Congress Party, he says, will help energize the country and create a more engaged electorate, who will hold their elected officials accountable. "It's an attitude, it's an idea," he said in an interview after the rally. "It's not simply about winning an election." (See pictures of the tempestuous Nehru-Gandhi dynasty of India...
Despite the successful operation to free the captain of the Maersk Alabama last weekend, Somali pirates continue to hold 16 ships with a total of 282 crew members, according to the International Maritime Bureau's piracy-reporting center, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Filipinos comprise nearly half the captives; a majority of the rest are from India, with smaller numbers from other South and Southeast Asian countries. In all these countries, sailing is seen as a tough but lucrative profession that fetches handsome dollar incomes relative to the amount of education required. Even amid the present economic gloom, officers' salaries have...