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...windy waters of San Francisco, Calif. “It is our goal to qualify for all three of the national championships every year,” senior skipper Jon Garrity said. The women’s squad finished its season with a 10th-place effort at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association Women’s National Championship from May 25-27. The co-ed squad competed in the ICSA Team Race National Championship from May 29-31 and the ICSA/Gill National Dinghy Championship from June 1-3. The women’s squad was led throughout this season...
Most analysts doubt direct Iranian involvement. There is speculation that rogue elements of Iran's Revolutionary Guard are to blame, the same way members of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency are known to abet militants in the eastern borderlands. Others point out the arms might be smuggled in from third countries. But there is consensus that Tehran, despite its historical aversion to the Taliban, has shown a willingness to "interfere in Afghan affairs as leverage against the United States when threatened," says Haroun Mir, a security analyst in Kabul...
...families of those killed are frustrated at what they believe is the police's refusal to more seriously investigate their claims and say that if the federal government does not intervene they will go to the Inter American Court of Human Rights and put Brazil on trial. More than half of the cases have been officially closed by the authorities, in some instances even after relatives pointed out discrepancies in the officers' reports...
...first time, Afghan and Pakistani Ministers of the Interior sat down and hammered out a rudimentary agreement on information-sharing. Agricultural and trade delegations also met, as did, most significant of all, military and intelligence representatives. (The idea that the Afghan intelligence service would break bread with the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, which created the Taliban, is mind-boggling.) These advances were given greater heft by positive developments on the ground - especially Pakistan's apparent decision to stop the Taliban advance toward Islamabad, using six to eight brigades transferred from the Indian border. (See pictures of the battle against...
Another encounter on Monday also failed to go according to Vatican plans. An evening ceremony in East Jerusalem to champion inter-religious dialogue was interrupted by an unscheduled diatribe by Palestinian Muslim cleric Sheikh Tasir al-Tamimi, who condemned Israel's attacks on Palestinians and its control over Jerusalem's holy sites. The diminutive and elderly Pope appeared a bit shaken by the outburst, and the event was cut short as the Vatican delegation quickly left the meeting hall. Papal spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, who has been working overtime to react to events, called the Muslim cleric's actions...