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...really wasn’t one of our best games,” Lippert said. “We played pretty poorly throughout. Brogan had some really nice feeds and and-ones, Christine hit a couple threes, and we were able to pull away, but on the whole, we have to do better than that...
...It’s definitely really exciting,” said freshman Kelly Robinson following Saturday’s preliminary round. “In some races, Princeton’s got an edge; in some, we do. I really believe Harvard can pull through...
...slammed Carrefour-Feuilles especially hard, much of the bidonville's clean-up is still being done with shovels and wheelbarrows. As pigs and billy goats forage in the debris, Patrick Massenat stares out at a concrete-smothered hillside. He recalls his 79-year-old mother, whose corpse he helped pull from the wreckage he's now helping to clear away. "It at least keeps you busy," says Massenat, 39, a local sanitation official. "Takes your mind off the pain." (See TIME's cover story on the Haiti earthquake...
Washington struggled to persuade the European members of NATO to pull their military weight even in the years when the alliance's purpose was to protect them from a Soviet invasion. Now that NATO is fighting a real war against assorted insurgents far from home in Afghanistan, getting the Europeans to pony up resources is proving to be an even tougher sell - and threatening NATO's very survival. (See pictures of the U.S. Army Reserve...
...Dutch government is expected to pull its 1,600 troops out of Afghanistan soon. And a call for 3,200 additional NATO soldiers to help train the fledgling Afghan army was answered with commitments for only half that number. "Training and advising the security forces of other nations needs to become a key alliance mission," Gates said. "In Afghanistan, the alliance has struggled to field the trainers and mentors needed for this mission." The building of indigenous military forces is key to allowing the U.S. and its NATO allies to go home, which makes the alliance's response...