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This quest is intermittently retarded by Eloise’s invasive narration. Every few chapters, we are brought back to contemporary London and treated to Eloise’s scintillating updates on her research progress, as well as her continued lusting after charming British bloke, Colin Selwick. Substitute “Firth” for “Selwick,” and you have an idea of how this plot too will develop...
...hoping to get an all-league spot, and I was in position to do it when I fell,” Barrett said. “It’s so disappointing.” Despite the poor team performance, runners agreed that progress, however infinitesimal, was being made. One silver lining was the performance of Hafer. Continuing his solid season with a breakthrough personal-best performance, the junior led the Crimson with a time of 25:08 for the eight-kilometer course, placing No. 13 and earning Second-Team All-Conference accolades in the process...
...also played well. Harvard netted four goals in its six man-advantage opportunities, all coming from the first line. On the defensive side, all six of RPI’s powerplays were killed effectively, limiting the Engineers to five shots.But the area that was identified as a work-in-progress by Stone and her players after the game was the defensive unit. Although RPI was held to 15 shots and did not manage a goal, there were moments in the final period when the Crimson could not manage to keep control of the puck and clear...
...Waddah's fourth week of captivity, one of the interrogators went down to his cell to inform him they had made some progress in contacting his family. Waddah had given them names of family members in Fallujah and Ramadi, along with directions to their homes. One of the addresses in Ramadi had checked out, and the person who lived there--an old friend who Waddah believed had been a fighter in an insurgent group--had agreed to find a phone number for his family. The interrogator said "our people in Baghdad" were also looking for Waddah's home...
...Bush administration is counting heavily on the Proliferation Security Initiative to delay Iran's nuclear progress. Washington knows that even if the U.N. Security Council passes some mild sanctions - a travel ban and a ban on trade in nuclear and missile program components - now being debated by the U.S., Europe, Russia and China, Tehran will almost certainly ignore these measures. And even if stiffer economic sanctions were to be adopted, Western diplomats acknowledge that Iran's windfall oil profits would cushion the impact...