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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard’s pressure defense did not let up in the second half, and when the three pointers stopped falling for the Engineers, things began to get ugly fast...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Engineers Win Over Cambridge Foe | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

...first he has to win back some of the smaller tent, where he's been losing a number of local straw polls of Florida's conservative GOP base. Crist has let Republican fundamentalists hammer him on the stimulus - and the now famous picture of him and Obama sharing an onstage hug - but his campaign is poised now to hammer back with reminders that as Governor he led a crusade to tamp down Florida's runaway property taxes and insurance premiums. Conservatives are still apoplectic about his appointment of an African-American Democrat to the Florida Supreme Court this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Crist Survive a Right-Wing Uprising in Florida? | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

Both the U.S. and Britain are key terrorism targets. Yet while the British barred Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from their country, the U.S. simply added his name to a list of 550,000 names and let him board a flight filled with nearly 300 other people bound for Detroit. Why? The contrasting ways the two nations dealt with the 23-year-old Nigerian engineering student before he allegedly tried to blow a Northwest/Delta airliner out of the sky on Christmas Day will make it tougher for U.S. officials to maintain that their terrorist-watch program is operating smoothly and efficiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Was the Accused Bomber Banned in Britain, Not the U.S.? | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...Still, Callahan hasn't let his off-field problems rattle his game. After getting dusted, he stepped back in the batter's box and in the process may have won some sandlot cred with a segment of Nicaraguans not normally reached via traditional suit-and-tie diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can U.S. Baseball Diplomacy Get the Save in Nicaragua? | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...letter, posted on the jihadist Shumukh al-Islam Network, really let loose its rage on the American people: "Receive the tidings about what will happen to you. Since we are coming to you with slaughter and we have prepared for you men who love death as much as [you love life], and God willing will come to you with something for which you are not prepared, and as you are killing [so] will you be killed." (Does the Flight 253 incident fit al-Qaeda's pattern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: Al-Qaeda's New Staging Ground? | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

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