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...America can win this war the easy way, the fate of Abdul Haq should serve as a powerful antidote. Few knew how to fight in the rugged Afghan steppes and summits better than Haq, a legendary mujahedin guerrilla who lost his right foot to a land mine while helping rout the Soviets. He left Afghanistan during the post-Soviet power struggle and renounced politics after his wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords in an anti-Taliban southern alliance. Because he was Pashtun...
...rival Andrea Kilbourne broke free on an odd-man rush late in the game, it was the 5’9, 190-pound Ruggiero who rushed down the right wing and provided the finish, one of several impressive displays in the U.S. National Team’s 16-0 rout of the ECAC East...
While Harvard has opened the season impressively, Cornell stumbled out of the gate, losing its first three games. The Big Red has been hampered by inconsistent play. After a season-opening 40-13 rout at the hands of Yale, Cornell competed well against two Patriot League powers, Colgate and No. 9 Lehigh, losing two each by three points. In those games, the Big Red alternated between periods of brilliance and mediocrity, scoring or surrendering points in bunches...
...mind how big it will be from now on. On its second day back to business, investors picked and chose a little, bidding most of the airline stocks back up a few points each after selling them down some 37 to 45 percent in Monday?s well-focused rout. But Continental?s soggy balance sheet and worried talk translated into more losses...
...something rode in late Wednesday to the rescue of what was about to be a very depressing selloff. Monday?s unflinching sellers had taken something of a breather on Tuesday, reviving the usual optimistic talk that the long-awaited bottom had maybe been reached by Monday?s rational rout. But on Day Three it was back down the slippery slope...