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Though Harvard was down 7-3 at the end of the third inning, sophomore Rob Wheeler delivered a stellar effort on the mound in five innings of relief, giving up just four hits and no earned runs, to keep the Crimson in the game and give it a chance at a comeback...
...sigh, "you've just spent in gas." The families of activated reservists qualify for the same health plan as active-duty families, but that can mean finding new doctors and learning to navigate yet another bureaucracy. Their creditors' employees are not always aware that the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act requires interest rates to be reduced to 6% for deployed reservists. Monica Dana of Long Island, N.Y., the wife of a reservist deployed in the gulf, has been waiting five months for Capital One to retroactively reduce its credit-card rate from 15.9% - even after a lawyer...
...forces or on Tel Aviv. There was no crisis of refugees on the borders, though the U.N. had predicted 1.5 million. The oil fields were secure. The Turks and Kurds were not, for the time being, fighting a war within a war. It was a moment of relief to have at least come this far without those fears being realized, even knowing harder days would surely come. --Reported by Alex Perry and Simon Robinson/Baghdad; Jim Lacey/Najaf; Terry McCarthy/Basra; Massimo Calabresi, John F. Dickerson and Mark Thompson/Washington; and Michael Ware/Kirkuk
...will Europeans and moderate Arabs want to help out, considering that they objected to the U.S.-led war? And if they do agree, what will they want in return? "In exchange for debt relief, France, Germany, Russia and others are very likely to ask for contracts to rebuild the country and sell Iraqi oil, as well as a voice in economic policy," points out Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former State Department official in the Carter Administration. So far, the billions of dollars in contracts to rebuild Iraq are going to U.S. companies...
...lobbied Rumsfeld and has been in daily contact with the Pentagon on the issue. The efforts were repaid last Friday, when Schumer's office was notified that the Secretary of the Navy would soon be sending a letter of reassurance that the contract was safe. "It's a huge relief, with a capital R," says Sodexho spokeswoman Leslie Aun. --By Karen Tumulty