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...last year in the Beanpot,” Sifers said of BC. “So right now it’s payback. It’s a huge game for us.”HARVARD 5, RPI 1After a sluggish start, the Crimson rallied behind Vaillancourt to pull away down the stretch. Harvard fell behind 1-0 midway through the second period but tied the score later in the frame and used a natural hat trick from Vaillancourt to bury the Engineers in the third period.It was Vaillancourt’s third hat trick of the season...
...show she has the ability or will to correct them. Her accomplishments as Secretary of State have been modest, and even those have begun to fade. She pushed Bush to appoint the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, only to see him ignore the commission's call to pull back from the fight in Iraq; instead Bush plans to send more Americans there. She persuaded Bush to back European-led negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program and even offer to talk directly to Tehran if it stopped enriching uranium. But she also supports the military's recent moves to beef...
...change his mind. But right now a military victory in Iraq is out of reach; at most, the U.S. is fighting not to lose. And so the fate of Bush's legacy, and perhaps even the future shape of the international system, may hinge on whether Rice can pull off some kind of diplomatic breakthrough in the 23 months she has left. "Condi has a very positive frame of mind in the way she looks at the world and, I think, the way she looks at her job," says Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns, a close adviser...
...Bush team] may be stumbling toward is grand strategy by accident, that includes diplomacy, economic muscle, military force and all of your capacity to lead other countries," says a former U.S. ambassador. But can an unpopular, lame-duck President, and a team with such a record of ineptitude, pull it off? "It is still going to be a very bumpy road," he says...
...humanitarian catastrophe inside Iraq will be horrific, but unless the U.S. is prepared intervene with 450,000 soldiers, the report recommends that it should pull its smaller force "back from Iraqi population centers" to safe havens "and refocus American efforts from preventing civil war to containing...