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...blustery February day in the northern Japanese town of Asahikawa, members of the local ?lite crowded into the warm confines of the Ginneko barbecue shack to discuss the crisis in Iraq. The topic: whether Japan's deployment of troops there was a good idea?an emotive issue, given that many of the departing soldiers were based in Asahikawa. Squeezed in with the mayor and a gaggle of local reporters was a bright-eyed youngster named Noriaki Imai. The 18-year-old had just graduated from high school in a nearby town a few days earlier, and he was washing down...
Harvard lost a tough game to Northern Colorado in the third game of the Wells Fargo Classic, falling to the Bears 9-1 in five innings last Saturday...
...semifinal affair against St. Lawrence, the Harvard fans seemed scattered and only slightly louder then the force that the northern New York opponent could muster from its 2,000-student base...
Palestinian security forces in Gaza don't want a battle either. Brigadier General Saeb Ajez, commander of military security in northern Gaza, says that taking on Hamas isn't a realistic option. Riven by internal disputes and personal power struggles, and undermined by Israel's campaign to strip Arafat of relevance, the Authority is weaker than ever. Its jealous assortment of security forces are at one another's throats, not Hamas'. Nor, says the general, do his men have the firepower to prevail. "Would Israel allow us to have a battalion armed with tanks so we could really fight Hamas...
...March SOUTH KOREA The Defense Ministry said it will be sending 3,600 troops to Iraq 's northern Kurdish region, in what will be the third-largest deployment in the country after the U.S. and Britain . The move came two weeks after Seoul abandoned plans to send troops to the volatile town of Kirkuk...