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...political crisis in Zimbabwe spirals into bloodshed and chaos, its ruler, Robert Mugabe, seems to have endless tricks up his sleeve. Already he has stalled an election after probably losing the first round, used the state-controlled press to divert attention to the chronic issue of land control, and apparently had thugs beat opposition supporters. But one of his strategies seems likely to fail. In mid-April, South Africa's Transport Workers Union refused to unload a shipment of Chinese arms destined for Zimbabwe...
Even where Iraqi troops are not in the thick of battle, their U.S. partners complain of incompetence and poor discipline. At a small desert outpost in the largely pacified Anbar province, an Iraqi police truck recently fired so close to a group of U.S. Marines that the round of bullets missed one Marine by only a few feet. After chasing down the truck, the lieutenant in charge of the Marines was shocked to learn the reason for the shooting. "Evidently, a car passing through the checkpoint in the other direction had honked its horn at the gun truck," he said...
...hole-in-one helped the Crimson to a second-round score of even-par 288—the lowest in the history of the program...
...Heading into the final round at the championships, the Crimson players found themselves up 10 strokes, and hoping to avoid a last-day choke...
After a perfect Ivy League season that handed it an automatic bid, the No. 51 men’s tennis team is set to take on No. 17 Texas Tech in Ann Arbor, Mich. on Saturday May 10 at 2 p.m. to open the first round of the NCAA tournament. Reaching as high as No. 44 over the course of an up-and-down season, the team used a trying early-season schedule to prepare itself for the tougher play to come, taking on top-ranked teams such as No. 1 Virginia and No. 8 Michigan. Harvard will look...