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...March 25. "Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border ... causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians." Mexico has seen more than 7,000 drug-related killings since early 2008, and the violence now threatening to spill north hasn't escaped attention. Late last year, somewhat hyperbolically, a Pentagon study lumped Mexico in with Pakistan as states that might face a "rapid and sudden collapse...
...Harvard win.“Oh, was it exciting,” said an ecstatic Crimson coach Joe Walsh. “It’s nice to see two comebacks. We were down a bundle of runs in both games...but] we honed in there and hit them late.”HARVARD 7, CORNELL 5After the Crimson came all the way back from a 4-0 hole with five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, the Big Red reclaimed the momentum in the seventh when third baseman Nathan Ford smashed a game-tying home...
...innings. Senior right fielder Tom Stack-Babich provided clutch hitting for Harvard in the second game, hitting a game-tying home run in the thirteenth inning, as well as the game-winning single.“Anytime we can beat Princeton—more importantly in a late inning game—it’s just something to build upon,” Walsh said, after the 513-pitch affair. “I don’t think there will be a game this year—no matter what the score is—that we?...
...meantime, the U.N. Security Council - at the behest of the U.S. and its key allies in East Asia, Japan and South Korea - convened yesterday to consider a response to the launch. But the meeting broke up late Sunday night with no agreement on anything, and that speaks volumes about the gap that now exists between China and Russia on one side (both permanent members of the Security Council) and the U.S., South Korea and Japan on the other. (Those nations, plus North Korea, comprise the six-party talks.) (Read about what North Korea could look like after...
...cease-fire. The Tigers have been fighting since 1983 to establish a separate homeland in the island's ethnic Tamil-majority areas, a conflict that has claimed more than 70,000 lives. To capture Prabhakaran - dead or alive - would symbolize the successful conclusion of a military offensive that began late in 2006 but has since dragged, despite the capture of nearly every town under Tiger control. Rajapaksa had one message for the Tiger leadership - above all Prabhakaran - in a speech at Temple Trees, his heavily guarded official residence in Colombo: "The option for the Tiger leadership is to lay down...