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With the Tigers leading by eight with just over a minute to play, the Crimson manufactured a last-ditch comeback that gave Harvard an opportunity to send the game into overtime on the final possession...
...CHENGDU, China) - An elaborate welcome was ready Friday for two American-born giant pandas arriving at their new China home after a tearful send-off in Washington by adoring crowds...
...year-old Mei Lan from Zoo Atlanta whirled and paced in her crate during the send-off, which was covered live on U.S. television. Tai Shan, a 4 1/2-year-old born in Washington, shyly ate a last-minute snack of apples and pears from the hands of his longtime keepers...
...election results send a more alarming signal to the Tamils, and to the civilized world at large, that a rural voter in a ‘Democracy by Ethnicity’ like Sri Lanka cannot not go beyond the policy of communal intoxication and anti-western sentiment. Another example of this reality was the conduct of state media during the polls—they continued to depict the ruler as a pious and pure soul offering prayers in the temples, thus not allowing the average voter to think past the Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism. These are the exact types of policies...
...Gates is the single most influential guy," says Leslie Gelb, the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and a skeptic of the Administration's strategy in Afghanistan. Gelb points out that in early December, days after President Obama's West Point speech announcing his decision to send 30,000 additional troops (on top of the 32,000 deployed in 2009) to the war zone and then begin bringing them home in July 2011, Gates went on the Sunday talk shows to say the withdrawal would depend on conditions on the ground. "The President didn't challenge him," Gelb...