Word: patriotism
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...Raiders invade Lavietes Pavilion tomorrow for a 2 p.m. match-up with the Crimson men’s basketball team. The showdown with Colgate University will be Harvard’s seventh game of the year and its first against a Patriot League...
...Raiders (4-2) have the highest scoring average in the Patriot League, averaging 77.0 points a game. The scoring has been led by four different players, all averaging in double figures. Harvard will have to make its baskets and play good defense to try and restrain the high-scoring Colgate squad...
After junior guard Brady Merchant missed two free throws and Prasse-Freeman missed the front end of a one-and-one, Crusaders’ junior forward Tim Szatko—the reigning Patriot League Player of the Year—hit a three to give Holy Cross back an eleven-point edge...
...PATRIOT GAMES Would you trade a Colin Powell for a Donald Rumsfeld, or a Dick Cheney for CIA director George Tenet? We're not talking about a Cabinet reshuffle here, but Topps' new 90-card Enduring Freedom set. The company describes the cards as a kid-friendly guide to the 9/11 attacks and the new war on terrorism. There are also plenty of cards showing F-16s, aircraft carriers and paratroopers. To get a card checklist and read about Topps' involovement in previous conflicts, go to topps.com/enduringfreedom.html
...winter. That "could provide the U.S. forces with a bridgehead or land corridor from Uzbekistan to ferry troops and supplies into Afghanistan, an advantage Pakistan cannot and has not offered because of domestic political constraints." The danger, of course, is de facto partition of Afghanistan, "a prospect no Afghan patriot contemplates with enthusiasm or equanimity. However, that may well be the bitter reality that will have to be swallowed, at least until there are signs, not visible so far, of some internal weakening of the Taliban and/or defections from the Pushtuns backing them...