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...When Ray Odierno took over the top military post in Iraq from General David Petraeus in September, there was a lot of hand-wringing among folk at defense think tanks in Washington worried that he was the wrong man for the job. They pointed to Odierno's reputation from his first tour in Iraq, in 2003, as a heavy-handed division commander who had neither a grasp of the subtleties of fighting an insurgency nor the political acumen to sell his ideas back home. Some correspondents who covered Iraq in the months after the fall of Saddam Hussein also came...
...played tight end at West Point. A native of Rockaway, N.J. (pop. 6,000), he speaks with the occasional New Jersey grumble, and bluntly. Odierno usually suffers in comparisons with the suave, diplomatic Petraeus. As a senior commander in Iraq told TIME in 2006, "If Dave is polish, Ray is spit." (See pictures of U.S. troops' 5 years in Iraq...
...offseason has been a pretty trying period for the Class of 2010. After the 2006 campaign, in which the Crimson won just three games with 11 freshmen on its roster, the team didn’t even have a coach until Ray Leone was named Erica Walsh’s successor in February. Even after Leone’s name was announced, Harvard practiced mostly on its own until he arrived later in the spring...
...Association championship game last week. So while the teams were mentally prepared for the extra sessions, their play lacked the crispness that was on display earlier in the game.“It was a physical contest at the end of a long season,” Harvard coach Ray Leone said. As the final minutes of regulation and overtime wore on, fatigue was palpable on both sides. It didn’t help that a few minutes of steady rain in the second overtime period were enough to make the turf and ball slick and unpredictable.Still, the Crimson wasn?...
...Northeastern, its first time in a NCAA tournament match proved to be a memorable one.For Harvard, the magic had run out, and its season was over.“It was a phenomenal game from start to finish,” Crimson coach Ray Leone said. “For our team, I couldn’t be prouder of what they have accomplished this year, including the effort they gave tonight—it was unbelievable.”After securing the Ivy league title on a penalty kick with nine seconds remaining in the second overtime...