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...coach, Harvard has won a total of 14 tournaments, while the program only had five tournament victories before Rhoads took over. When Rhoads joined the Crimson, he set a goal of not only becoming the best team in the Ivy League, but also the best team in the entire Northeast. This year, Harvard achieved both, finishing the season as the top team in the region and placing 18th in the NCAA Central Regional Championship in the heat of Austin, Tex., after reaching 15th place at one point during the final round. Rhoads is a full-time teacher of the game...
...Turn to the Left India is no stranger to violent rebellion, as the decades-long struggle in Kashmir attests. But the separatist conflict there and low-level insurgencies in the country's remote northeast grind on at the periphery, driven by groups agitating to break away. The Maoists, like their ideological brothers in Nepal who recently took power through elections, are different. They want to overthrow the government in New Delhi and install a new one, and they have taken their fight to the geographic heart of the country, to the scrubby woodland and remote, poor villages that blanket...
...placed them three and a half points ahead of Brown, to whom they lost by one in last weekend’s Heptagonals and by 68 points in last year’s outdoor Heptagonals.“For our women to finish in the top 20 in the northeast, it’s really exciting,” Saretsky said. “But as our program continues to evolve, we look to be one of the best programs in the East.”And with all the young talent making their marks over the weekend, that evolution...
...Over the past six months, Chalabi has focused a lot of attention on delivering services to Sadr City, the northeast Baghdad Shi'ite slum that is a major stronghold of the firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. To do this required close coordination with al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, which has over the past month been locked in fierce battles with U.S. and Iraqi government forces. The U.S. alleges that elements of the Mahdi Army have received training and weapons from Iran. "We talk to the Madhi Army," says Chalabi spokesman Mohammad Hassan al-Moussawi, "because the Madhi Army...
...Monday's earthquake, China's deadliest since 1976 when more than 200,000 died in a magnitude 7.5 temblor in the northeast city of Tangshan, has jolted the country into a frenzied race against time and death. Chinese state-run media estimated that there are 25,000 people trapped in collapsed structures in the quake zone, including 18,645 people in Mianyang, a city of more than 5 million. President Hu Jintao called for an all-out response. About 100,000 relief workers, including soldiers, police and medical teams, are working in the affected areas, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said...