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...race of the season is at Cornell against Cornell and Penn, so it’s my actual home course, senior year, against the best team in the country for the last two years,” Mulcahy said. “I’d really like to shake things up there. I’m hoping to bring out the Ithaca supporters for Harvard for that one.”But first comes the Head of the Charles, where the Crimson will have its chance to size up the competition and also to gauge where it stands this...
...Thursday, 32 tribal sheiks from the region - mostly Sunni, but including some Shiites - signed a groundbreaking accord pledging to work together to curb extremism and to shake the sectarian violence that has rent the region since the U.S. forces invaded the country in 2003. The rare gathering at Baghdad's al Rashid Hotel, in the heart of the Green Zone, was the culmination of months of delicate negotiations and a welcome breakthrough for U.S. troops who've been fighting and dying there for the past 14 months. "You know the saying: that all politics is local. Well you really...
...trying to shake things up just a little at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Bob Gates took one ordinary - and one extraordinary -step this week...
...Little sibs, big roleFor eldest siblings, this is a pretty sweet deal. There is not much incentive for them to change a family system that provides them so many goodies, and typically they don't try to. Younger siblings see things differently and struggle early on to shake up the existing order. They clearly don't have size on their side, as their physically larger siblings keep them in line with what researchers call a high-power strategy. "If you're bigger than your siblings, you punch 'em," Sulloway says...
...There are other reasons to pay attention while inside this country, and on fight night it didn't take long to discover just why. The cops were waiting outside the arena to shake down the approaching guests for any number of supposed infractions, such as a lack of local passport registration or just looking sufficiently moneyed but insufficiently connected. The police parked a battered old bus near the entrance, and once they hauled someone inside, it cost minimum $40 to secure an exit...