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...last time I met Saif Abdallah, in the winter of 2006, he was proud to have helped kill dozens, possibly hundreds of American soldiers. Then 28, he was a geeky electronics engineer who made trigger devices for roadside bombs known as IEDs - the No. 1 cause of U.S. troop casualties. I remember the relish he took in listing his clients, most of them Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups, whom he saw as fellow patriots trying to drive out the American occupier. He had also devised triggers for al-Qaeda. "They pay me," he said then with a shrug. "Anybody who wants...
...back shots. Wilson wasn’t far behind, tallying three goals and five assists on the weekend. She closed out the weekend with a breakaway goal, giving her a hand in all five Crimson goals against the Big Red. “I’m really proud of our team,” Vaillancourt said. “I think we battled, and we just went at it, and the hard work finally paid off.” With three minutes left in the period, Cornell pulled its goalie. Harvard took advantage of the empty...
...needed it,” Schultz said.It is the Crimson’s second championship in as many seasons and third in the last five. Brown holds the other piece of the title after its 41-10 win over Columbia.“I’m very, very proud of our seniors,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “Back to back Ivy League champions. Chris Pizzotti, who was here for five years, helped us win three Ivy League championships, and this is a special senior class.”The Game was a defensive...
...very, very proud of our seniors,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “Back to back Ivy League champions. Chris Pizzotti, who was here for five years, helped us win three Ivy League championships, and this is a special senior class...
Michael Steele does not diminish the power of the Obama victory. "As a black man, of course I am very proud of his accomplishment," Steele says. "It is at once uplifting - of not only a people but a nation - and sobering in light of the work that remains to be done to address the systemic erosion of black wealth, health and opportunity." But Steele predicts that Obama as President will find it difficult to appease his more liberal supporters as he is forced to moderate views on the economy and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, among other issues...