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...road. So far, Harvard has proven itself among non-conference opponents, but this weekend also marks the last chance to prepare for its Ivy League opener against rival Yale on October 3. Two worthy opponents and a top ten team face the Crimson men this week in their mission to secure the best record to start a season in school history, but amidst the pressure, the team is keeping its focus.As Millock said, “Nothing matters until we make it to the NCAA’s and win the Ivies...
...military academy, deep in the monsoon-drenched hills of Kachin state, juts his chin out, blinks back tears and announces he is ready for deployment. "I am shaking very hard inside," he tells me, his voice trembling. "But I have a responsibility to complete my mission...
...election, there has been no grand new mission, no ambitious vision of remaking Germany - or Europe, or the world - on view. As the continent's largest economy, Germany could have taken a lead to ensure that the European Union came together to weather the worst economic downturn in 70 years; it did not. Germany, to be sure, has contributed 4,000 troops to the NATO mission in Afghanistan. And yet there is deepening unease in Germany about the nation's involvement in the war there. That is partly because German troops are killing and being killed in greater numbers...
Richard Goldstone, author of the scathing U.N. report released this week, which accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during Operation Cast Lead last winter, also had to pass through Rafah to conduct his investigation in June. Israel had refused to cooperate with the mission, denying Goldstone, a South African Jew, and his team visas to enter the Jewish state. He, of course, got back out. But for the Palestinians on the inside, escaping through Rafah requires special permission. "The Egyptians only open it for humanitarian situations - sick people, students, and residents outside with foreign passports," says Issam Younis...
...former pariah now sitting down with the world foremost power), as well as to marginalize its neighbors South Korea and Japan. From North Korea's perspective, Obama's willingness to sit down directly is already a diplomatic victory of sorts. (See pictures of Bill Clinton's North Korea rescue mission...