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...Black and White lightweight eight finished in third place third among collegiate varsity crews, falling behind only Wisconsin—which won the race—and Georgetown—which finished third. More impressive was the comeback run the Radcliffe lightweight women achieved against rival Princeton...
...Army lacked sufficient troops in Afghanistan to control the countryside. "After seven years in Afghanistan, there is not one square kilometer left untouched by a boot of a Soviet soldier," Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the top Soviet military officer, said in November 1986. "But as soon as they leave a place, the enemy returns and restores it all back the way it used to be." (McChrystal's take: "The insurgents control or contest a significant portion of the country, although it is difficult to assess precisely how much due to a lack of [U.S. and allied] presence...
...boycott the unity government now calls into question Tsvangirai's decision to enter into the arrangement in the first place. Since the deal was signed, Mugabe and ZANU-PF have spared no effort to sabotage it. The party has stymied the formation of a government by introducing endless procedural objections and by simply not turning up to meetings. Growing MDC impatience finally boiled over on Oct. 15 with the re-arrest of Roy Bennett, the party's treasurer and a white farmer, on charges of possessing weapons with the intention to commit sabotage, banditry and insurgency. But even here, Tsvangirai...
...sharing deal. Tsvangirai has set up meetings this week with the leaders of Mozambique and Congo to urge them to put pressure on Mugabe. "The effectiveness of the decision to enter into a 'symbolic' boycott will be determined by the strategies, if any, that the MDC has put in place to leverage real change from this public expression of dissatisfaction," Alexander says. (Read "Does Zimbabwe's Unity Government Stand a Chance...
...Even if the MDC does have a strategy in place, it may have drawn itself into a corner. "This is a period of confusion. There is too much heat emanating from the frustration the MDC has gone through," says Tendai Nyamutatanga, a political scientist at the University of Zimbabwe. "But what will happen if ZANU-PF sticks to its guns? The MDC might be doomed." Ominously, when asked to comment on the MDC's move, Mugabe's party could not have appeared less concerned. Initially, ZANU-PF claimed to not have heard about it. Then party leaders said they didn...