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...find a way to beat the Trinity Bantams—winners of a record-breaking 144 straight matches and counting. “For a lot of us this could be potentially the last opportunity to compete in this highly competitive sport of squash,” said captain Ilan Oren, who will be starting in the second position. “Of course our immediate goal is to win the Ivy title.” “This time we want to win the Ivies outright,” Sheth added. After some excruciatingly close losses last year?...
...Tigers to win the preseason event and take the top ranking entering the season. “Even though the results have no real, official meaning, they are very important for the teams to gauge where we stand right before the season kicks off,” said captain Ilan Oren in an email. All seven of the teams in the competition are seeded in the top 11 in the College Squash Association’s preseason national rankings. Princeton was the top team entering the weekend with the No. 2 spot, and the Crimson and the Bulldogs followed...
...Still, there is consensus in the Israeli leadership that even if Hizballah agrees to stop pelting Israel with hundreds of rockets every day, calling off the Israeli offensive right now would mean admitting failure. Gerald Steinberg, a political science professor at Bar-Ilan University in Jerusalem, summed up the opinion of many Israelis: "If Israel withdraws from Lebanon without striking harder at Hizballah, we will have accomplished nothing for all our suffering...
...built a lovely home and raised three children. Until last year, they planned to ease into retirement while the children took over their agricultural business. The conflict was never far away, but Israeli settlements and troops in northern Gaza buffered them from the worst of it. A house for Ilan, 29, was under construction. Amir, then 24, lived with his girlfriend, Dana, 22, behind his parents' place, in the same thin-walled structure the Ragolskys inhabited when they first arrived...
...house is still standing - a softball-sized hole in the roof, wires hanging from the ceiling - but, like the Ragolskys and Dana's family, it's not the same. Amir left a month later, traveling in Asia for a time, then working in Amsterdam and now New York City. Ilan moved to a village 20 km north; the house meant for him remains half-finished. Yossi's daughters needed counseling, particularly the 5-year-old. "All my plans," says Pnina, "all my dreams of having a farm here, and when I get older, my family around me," were...