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After Tigers goalie Erin Tochihara denied two solid shot attempts, freshman Nina Kucharczyk got a ball past the stingy netminder to break the tie. Kucharczyk, who recently moved to attack, looked comfortable in her new position, breaking away from her defender and shooting low for her third-career score...
With a close 4-3 win against Yale at Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Conn., the squad moved closer to turning those NCAA dreams into reality...
...British soldiers can certainly be overconfident. But John Nagl, president of the Center for a New American Security, believes the real roots of British humiliations in Iraq lie in London. "If the politicians back home are not completely committed to this thing, if they have not leveled with the people on the likely costs of the war, then you're putting an unsupportable burden on the army in the field in a counterinsurgency campaign," says Nagl. "And so as you look at explanations as to why the British army performed better in Malaya than Iraq, one of the questions...
...scale, the replacement of the British Army of the Rhine in 1994 by a standing force of less than half its size, as a "peace dividend" arising from the end of the Cold War. But with failed states on three continents giving cause for concern, the chance of a new peace dividend seems remote...
...cadets look around, they may spot amid the splendors of Sandhurst's 1812 Old College and its New College, completed a century later, another sobering lesson in the realities of the career they have chosen. Sandhurst's iconic buildings, like the armed forces, are showing signs of wear and tear. Britain's soldiers remain a focus for national pride, and the fresh-minted officers being turned out by Sandhurst embody a grand tradition. But unless Britain's politicians find a way of reconciling the U.K.'s reflexive desire to take a leading role on the world stage with the nation...