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...resisted dispatching even the 1,000 Marines in Afghanistan at the time to find bin Laden. Some officers now say that instead of trying to finish the job quickly and with minimal risks last year, the U.S. should have tried to surround bin Laden's lair, deploy troops to seal off the Pakistani border and wait until spring to attack. Even then, Pentagon officials say, bin Laden might still have slipped through their grasp...
...action in a 2001 comeback win over Princeton. Entering the game in the second quarter he completed 5-of-6 passes for 71 yards. In the Crimson’s come from behind win over Dartmouth a week later, Fitzpatrick led the team to 31 second half points to seal the victory...
...East and West, are anxious to remind the poet's legions of new fans that when Rumi invited his listener or reader to leave the yesses and nos of conventional belief behind, he did so as a card-carrying member of a culture that unquestioningly accepted Muhammad as the Seal of the Prophets, and the Koran as God's last word, dictated verbatim by the angel Gabriel...
...score brought the Crusaders to within just one possession of the lead. Harvard, though, was able to seal the game by eating up the final five minutes of the clock, thanks to two critical first-down rushes by sophomore Ryan Fitzpatrick, who relieved Rose, and another by Morris, who gained nine yards after he lined up in the shotgun as the quarterback...
...British but won't stress them. For Paris, the key thing is not to oppose American military action in Iraq for the fun of it--in fact, relations between the French and American governments have been quietly improving--but to ensure that any war has a U.N. seal of approval. A carefully crafted Security Council resolution should do the trick, as it should for the Chinese--similarly opposed to the unilateral display of American armed force--and the Russians. "Russia isn't going to mess up its relationship with the U.S. because of Iraq," says a Foreign Ministry source...