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...Harvard men’s soccer team’s season-opening victory against Rhode Island on Saturday bumped the Crimson from No.15 to No. 13 in College Soccer News’ national rankings and earned individual accolades for senior co-captain Matt Hoff and freshman Alex Chi. Hoff, who assisted on the first two Harvard goals before adding the game-winning score in the 3-2 win over the Rams, was named to the College Soccer Division I National Team of the Week. Hoff’s goal came midway through the second half, when he juked two defenders...
...party's antiwar flank, none of the Democratic efforts have yet attracted lasting bipartisan support. The few that have come close fall well short of veto-proof margins. The best proposals, like the plan developed by Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Jack Reed of Rhode Island that would begin withdrawals by 120 days after passage, mustered only 52 votes, not enough to overcome a filibuster or override a veto...
...Unfortunately, the Americans who built the base crossed the line from efficiency to cruelty. First, they killed the islanders' dogs. That is, they loaded the pets into sealed sheds, gassed them, and cremated them, according Prof. David Vine, a public anthropologist at American University in Washington who has studied the island's colonization by the U.S. Then the British loaded the inhabitants, known as Chagossians, onto ships and sent them off to Mauritius and the Seychelles, 1,200 miles to the west across the Indian Ocean, where they live to this day. A court case is under way in Britain...
...wasn't going to get any reporting done on the expulsion of the Chagossians or the treatment of terror suspects such the Indonesian al-Qaeda leader Hambali, who is believed to have been held on the island, I at least wanted proof I'd been there. Twenty years ago, Time's Chief of Correspondents, Dick Duncan, offered a case of fine Bordeaux to the first correspondent who filed a legitimate story from Diego Garcia. The equivalent in 2007 media dollars is probably a box of Chablis, but in any case I wanted evidence...
...airmen guarding the exit spotted a civilian contractor, William L. Corke, who offered to grab some T-shirts. Half an hour later, Corke returned with a bag of shirts with colorful pictures of scantily clad women and mermaids bearing the words, "Fantasy Island, Diego Garcia...