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...military has one of the highest casualty rates in Afghanistan. "Our mission in Afghanistan is really a multilateral mission," he says. "Besides the United States, 41 nations have contributed ... around 30,000 troops." At the same time, he "would very much like to see further contributions from the European side" - perhaps, he says, in the shape of military and police trainers. "We, the Europeans, should look closer into how we view the right balance within the alliance." Echoing the message from the Obama Administration, he says that winning the war rests on providing "Afghans [with] better life opportunities" and strengthening...
...draws to an end and the Monuments Men discover booty in the salt mines at Altaussee in northern Austria. There, Hitler's troops had stored 10,000 of their most prized pieces, including Michelangelo's Madonna of Bruges, a 4-ft. (1.3 m) marble statue found "lying on her side on a filthy brown-and-white mattress." The Monuments Men wrapped her in coats, paper and rope before placing her in a cart. "I think we could bounce her from alp to alp, all the way to Munich, without doing her any harm," an American conservationist said at the time...
Duncan, 44, is no stranger to occasional discomfort. He grew up in Hyde Park--the tony South Side enclave that's home to the University of Chicago--but played a lot of basketball in one of the rougher neighborhoods nearby. Often the only white player on the court, he became adept at figuring out when to be aggressive and when to hang back. In the early 1960s, Duncan's mother started an after-school tutoring program in an inner-city neighborhood following her discovery that few of the 9-year-olds in her Bible-study class could read. "In Chicago...
...next two opponents by scores of 6-2, 6-4 and 7-5, 3-4, respectively. Though the first-year faced no ranked opponents over the weekend, she did defeat challengers who had beaten the No. 73 and No. 107 nationally-ranked collegiate players. On the other side of the draw, Cao opened the fall season with a 6-3, 6-4 win and then squashed third-seeded Yevgeniya Stupak 6-0, 6-1 in the quarterfinals. Stupak, from East Tennessee State University, was ranked No. 98 in the nation. In the semifinals, Cao dueled Michaela Kissel of Marshall...
...some goals in the second half.” It did not take Akpan long to make his mark. Six minutes into the second half, Akpan picked the ball up on the edge of the box, shifted it to his right, and curled it into the right side of the net to give the Crimson a two-goal cushion. Harvard would go on to cap off a perfect weekend with an emphatic 4-0 win over Army (1-4) on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The victory should see Harvard enter the top 25 in the national rankings. The match could...