Word: shootings
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...drop a game under .500 on the season. Harvard (8-9, 1-2 Ivy) has struggled with its defense all year, entering the game last in the Ivy League in field goal percentage allowed, and the Crimson hit bottom in that department, letting the Bulldogs (6-10, 2-1) shoot a season-high 58.3 percent from the floor, including a scalding 62.5 percent before halftime. Harvard, despite that statistic, actually held a 40-37 halftime lead. But by the intermission, the momentum of the game was already pointing in the Bulldogs direction. Harvard led by as many as 13 with...
...Israel's government now faces a dilemma: Should it retaliate for the Eilat bombing and risk uniting the warring Palestinian factions against the traditional common foe; or should it sit back and continue to watch Hamas and Fatah shoot each other in a growing civil war? The men who sent the bomber appear to have been betting on retaliation...
...onto a lonely country road. There the gunmen ordered all Sikh men?identifiable by their turbans and beards?Muslims and women to get off the bus. They commanded the remaining 33 passengers, most of them Hindu, to shout the praises of a Sikh terrorist recently killed in a police shoot-out. Then, as the frightened bus riders began to comply, the gunmen cold-bloodedly opened fire. Twenty-two men died in the fusillade. The terrorists escaped with accomplices on motor scooters...
...That could be a huge problem for the U.S. if the simmering conflict over Taiwan ever boils over. "The Chinese understand how dependent the Americans are on these spy satellites," says John Pike, a satellite expert with GlobalSecurity.org. "And they understand how easy it is to shoot them down." A strike against intelligence-gathering satellites, he theorizes, would likely be China's first move in any military action against Taiwan. "If the Chinese are to have any hope of grabbing Taiwan while nobody is looking, they have to win quickly," Pike says. "They have to present the Americans with...
...barbecues and bushfires?without, it seems, getting up people's noses. Few days pass without the hyperactive Queenslander making his earnest contribution, on radio or TV, to the issue of the moment. It's said that Rudd also took a short break. Even workaholics need a few days to shoot TV ads, strategize and catch up on recreational reading about monetary policy and political philosophy. With the country's workplaces and schools returning to normal patterns this week, the election campaign has begun?though the poll isn't due until late 2007. Howard is seeking a fifth term and remains...