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...youngest in the league, the two claimed fifth at nationals and earned second in an earlier tournament. When Kuld won nationals in 2006, he took first place in four tournaments.Kuld and Turalinski, who plays indoor for York University, will be looking to improve on last year’s result this upcoming season. The two have a good shot to medal in the 21U nationals, but Kuld may choose not to play—he is currently weighing other options for the summer.Although Harvard’s outside hitter might forgo this upcoming beach volleyball season, he has thoroughly enjoyed...
...Three Trillion Dollar War,” with economist and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, this price tag does not take into account the long-term and macroeconomic costs of the war. Her estimate includes decades of future veterans’ compensation payouts; oil price hikes as a result of supply disruption; and the loss not only to families but to the economy when productive Americans are injured or die young...
...Leader Development and Assessment Course—or LDAC, as it is so often called—is a case in point. The result of the four weeks of assessment is a national ranking that determines cadets’ priority for military division and geographic post. Those that rank high will end up at the place of their choosing—places like Hawaii are popular, Captain David Gowel, an ROTC instructor, explains. Those who find themselves farther down the list won’t be nearly so lucky...
...advantage of the recent American disarmament of Sunni fighters in Baghdad to seize Sunni homes, thus turning Baghdad into an almost exclusively Shiite city. And then of course there are the heads of the mafia-type gangs and networks—many which first came into existence as a result of international sanctions and then the “Oil for Food Program” of 1990—who continue to benefit enormously from the opportunities for lucrative smuggling both in and out of Iraq, as well as smuggling drugs and other lucrative products transiting from the east...
Instead, he challenged Americans to learn something about their country, to seek to understand those whose emotions seem threatening, wrong-headed, even un-American. He asked whites to understand that the anger behind Rev. Wright's comments, while paralyzing, was also valid, the result of decades and centuries of real discrimination and oppression suffered by African Americans. And he asked blacks to understand that whites who resent affirmative action and whose fears of crime lead them to stereotype blacks should not be dismissed as racists, because their concerns and fears are real and valid...