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...this year, Saudi Arabia brokered a power-sharing agreement that created a unity government. But as of last weekend, the unity government appears to be on the verge of collapse amid fierce new fighting between gunmen of the two parties, and Hamas? rocket crews may be trying to restore intra-Palestinian cooperation by provoking the Israelis into launching new military actions in Gaza. That leaves the Israelis facing a dilemma: Small-scale measures won?t do much to stop the rockets, while a larger military response could play into Hamas? hands...
...three of NASA's first space programs, the garrulous, coolly competent perfectionist had a blast, smuggling a corned-beef sandwich aboard the Mercury, joking to reporters about his thoughts before a launch ("This was all put together by the lowest bidder") and cheering Americans with intra-capsule antics covered on TV. Yet he was the go-to guy for such delicate assignments as Gemini 6A--in which he made a critical snap call to stay aboard after an initial malfunction on the first launch attempt, and went on to outshine the Soviets by artfully orchestrating the first-ever space rendezvous...
...great win, so it means there’s a lot of competition for seats in the varsity now,” Medaris noted, looking forward to the next few weeks of intra-team competition to determine the line-ups for the Eastern Sprints...
...hockey team, ranked sixth in the latest national poll, will face top-ranked University of Wisconsin on Saturday night at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis. A six-one pairing is not the most logical but, in this case, seems to reflect a decision to avoid an intra-conference matchup between the Crimson and third-ranked Dartmouth.“I am on the [NCAA selection] committee, so I sort of anticipated they were going to do that,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “Though the other determining factor, more importantly, is that they really...
...tournament bracket pits Harvard against top-ranked defending champion Wisconsin. The quarterfinal showdown is set for 8 p.m. Saturday night in Madison, Wisc. The pairing of the sixth-ranked Crmison with the Badgers, the tournament’s top seed, reflects the desire of the selection committee to avoid intra-conference matchups, as the coupling of Harvard with its logical opponent, No. 3 Dartmouth, would have been. Both teams boast two top-10 Patty Kazmaier Award finalists—senior co-captain and sophomore Sarah Vaillancourt for the Crimson, 2006 winner Sara Bauer and Meaghan Mikkelson for Wisconsin. The Badgers...