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Under bright lights in Las Vegas, Harvard’s top grapplers continued to shine.Sophomore Corey Jantzen captured a title in his first action of the year, while junior co-captains J.P. O’Connor and Louis Caputo posted top-three finishes at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational this weekend.Continuing its brutal schedule, the Crimson sent eight competitors to the annual tournament, which features some of the nation’s best talent in the Las Vegas Convention Center.Junior Andrew Knapp, sophomore Michael Sadler, and rookies Bryan Panzano, Walter Peppelman, and Sean Murphy rounded out the Harvard lineup...
...note that Peter Baron, the inventor of the straw that adds flavor to a drink, was forced to call it the Sippahh because his original name, Suckahh, did not go down well in the U.S. [Nov. 24]. It occurs to me that as an Australian, he was probably keen to call his new straw, containing friendly bacteria, the Buggahh. D.C. Cardwell, Langwarrin, Victoria
...exactly keen on cooperating with an investigation into the massacre. The Mumbai attacks bore many of the trademarks of the extremist groups based in Pakistan, notably Lashkar-e-Taiba, which in the past has benefited from the patronage of the ISI. Whether the Pakistani military is orchestrating the violence or merely shielding its perpetrators, tensions with India are rising dangerously...
...Before the attacks on Mumbai, the U.S. had been keen on seeing a reduction of Indo-Pakistan tensions in the hope - openly voiced by President-elect Barack Obama - that such changes would free Pakistan to conduct more effective counterinsurgency operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in its northwestern tribal areas. Washington fears that Indo-Pakistan rivalry will make its own task in Afghanistan more difficult. Obama therefore called for promoting a rapprochement between India and Pakistan as a key objective of U.S. foreign policy. But he will find few takers in India for continuing a peace process with...
...exactly keen on cooperating with an investigation into the massacre. The Mumbai attacks bore many trademarks of the extremist groups based in Pakistan, notably the Lashkar-e-Taiba, which in the past has benefited from the patronage of the ISI. Whether the Pakistani military is orchestrating the violence or merely shielding its perpetrators, tensions with India are rising dangerously...