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...power-play goal of the evening at 5:30 to make the score 3-0. The game also marked junior John Riley’s first collegiate start in goal. Riley finished the night with 25 saves. Though challenged in the first period during two UAH power-plays, Riley kept the game scoreless, stopping five shots, two coming from point-blank deflections.“He works hard and had a great game for us. Unfortunately our defense couldn’t back him up,” Biega said. “Those three goals should never have gone...
...Harvard men’s basketball team kept its fans in the holiday spirit on Sunday, easily dispatching Daniel Webster, 94-51, at Lavietes Pavilion. Though junior guard Jeremy Lin once again led the Crimson (6-5) statistically, many of Harvard’s bench players saw quality minutes against the Division III Eagles (3-4). “[There’s] nothing like having a game, putting yourself in some situations and things, and you learn about your team a little bit,” Crimson coach Tommy Amaker said. “I was pleased that different...
They can start by acknowledging that after 50 years of communist revolution in Cuba and counter-revolution from the U.S., both sides can claim only partial victories. Washington and Miami's Cuban exiles can say they kept the U.S. trade embargo against Havana intact. Yet they failed to dislodge Fidel Castro and his government and instead succeeded in alienating the rest of the hemisphere. Congratulations! The Castro regime can say it stood up to a half-century of yanqui aggression while proving that quality universal education and health care are doable. But the price - a basket-case economy...
...response to an Israeli raid on Nov. 5 aimed at stopping Palestinians from tunneling under the boundary fence. Hamas needed a truce, but one on more favorable terms than what had applied in the preceding six months. During that time, Israel had largely stopped military attacks in Gaza but kept in place a crippling economic siege as part of a Bush Administration-backed campaign to pressure the Palestinian civilian population to overthrow the Hamas government it had elected in 2006. (See pictures of the Middle East crisis...
...independent project that tallies statistics from NGOs and other groups, says that between 8,315 and 9,028 Iraqi civilians were killed in 2008. That compares to over 22,671 civilian deaths in 2007, and over 25,774 in 2006, according to the organization's tally. IBC has kept track of such numbers along with details of each incident since the 2003 U.S. invasion. Even so, the report cautions that the decline is only low in relative terms, and that attacks against civilians remain a serious problem. (See pictures of Iraq's streets coming back to life...