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...season is so short that every win is important,” Sheldon said. “The first match is always important because it can really set the tone for the rest of the season. “The spring season is really only a month long, so that win is really important in determining the rest of the season.” Coming off a championship season, the squad looks to hold onto to the top spot until the Ivy Championships. “We are really looking to remain competitive,” Balmert said...
Meanwhile, because of the new U.S-Iraq security agreement that went into effect on Jan. 1, a first batch of 1,500 inmates were released from Camp Bucca last month, at a rate of about 50 a day. The marked improvement in security across Iraq has meant that more detainees are being released than captured. Last year, 18,600 low-threat inmates were freed from Bucca, while only half of that figure were taken in. Of those released, 497 were transferred to the Iraqi government...
...from Sadr City, was at Bucca last week to visit his brother Ali, who was picked up by U.S troops on suspicion of being a member of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. "My brother has been here for a year and a month; keep him here for another year and a month but don't hand him over to the Iraqis," Salam says, as other Iraqis gathered around him and echoed his sentiment. "He will be tortured at the hands of the Iraqis. They are corrupt and will make us pay bribes so that they...
...global media company, who requested anonymity because he is negotiating a severance package with his former employer, is another expat who has been living parsimoniously since being laid off. In the boom years, he occupied a spacious sea-view apartment near downtown Singapore that rented for $5,000 a month. Today he occupies more modest digs, paying about $700 a month for an apartment he shares with a friend. "I'm interested in creature comforts like hot water, but I can do without joining a country club or driving a Lamborghini," he says...
...headline in a local paper blared. "Prices continue to move lower." It's a "great time to be a buyer," another story reads. If there was something plaintive about those stories, it is because buyers seem to be in hibernation these days. In a report published earlier this month, the country's central bank said the "number of residents willing to buy a home in the next three months is at a record...