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...better job of staying out of the penalty box this season, and they have also played pretty well in their own end of the ice. With things relatively shored up on the defensive side, Union must focus its efforts in the attacking zone, where it has only mustered a scant 1.71 goals per game in league play. GRADE...
...police put an alleged accomplice, Mohammad Afzal, in front of television cameras, where he admitted helping the terrorists reach New Delhi from India-controlled Kashmir. New Delhi announced it was fully satisfied that Pakistan was behind the plot, though evidence was scant. In Islamabad the expected hot denials had an unmistakable timbre of truth. In the wake of Sept. 11, such an assault on India was probably the worst thing that could happen to Musharraf & Co. The general turned President condemned the attack. But it hardly mattered what Musharraf said. India already realized that the attack on Parliament, though similar...
...course, this shooting match isn't really about the past, it's about the midterm congressional elections that are now a scant 10 months away - and Daschle doesn't lack for ammunition. Congress' first order of business when it returns to work Monday will be to heed Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's plea and raise the current $5.95 trillion federal debt ceiling to $6.7 trillion, lest the U.S. government default on its paper, Argentina-style. And Friday morning Bush's own Labor Department gave Daschle a nice hook to work into his speech when it announces the unemployment numbers...
...looks beyond Afghanistan for its next target in the war on terror, one part of the world that has received relatively scant attention is South America. But U.S. intelligence agencies are becoming increasingly worried about a nest of terrorists, drug traffickers and organized-crime figures who have taken up residence in South America's tri-border area, where Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet. "It's like the Wild West there," says a Pentagon official. "Crime, religious extremism and politics are all linked under the table." For several years the CIA has had a team of agents monitoring terrorists from Hizballah...
...here I sit, a scant six months away from graduation, and I know, I mean really know, about a dozen people on this campus. That’s about 0.75 percent of my class, worse than most medical school admissions rates. In fact, I know almost no one outside my concentration, and only a scant sampling from within...