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...Crimson field hockey team this season. After more than a month without a win, Harvard broke its losing streak and started to creep its way out of the depths of defeat. The opening string of losses marked the second consecutive season in which the Crimson suffered a 10-game skid and notched an overall record below .500. As in the 2005 season, Harvard was again badgered by one-goal losses in 2006, all five of which were suffered during the first 10 contests. Among those losses were a 1-0 loss to No. 10 Connecticut and a 2-1 defeat...
...during that initial skid, Harvard put together the elements of its game, laying a solid foundation for a turnaround season in which the Crimson went 10-9 overall and came within a few games of the top of the Ivy standings, ultimately losing out by just...
...attention their maladies got. And when they're not getting misty over the inhumanity of it all, you may - when you see surveillance footage of mentally disoriented outpatients from the high-end University of Southern California hospital who are put in a cab and dumped near an L.A. Skid Row homeless facility when their coverage runs...
...Mansour, the 8th century founder of Baghdad; it was pulverized by a homemade bomb in 2005. To keep their bearings, the troops have taken to identifying routes by the names of 1980s heavy-metal bands. We drive down Bon Jovi, where the barbershop used to be, and pass Skid Row, which had the best falafel in town. At the end of the block is Poison, which four years ago was Mansour's commercial hub, lined with restaurants, shops, a gym and even a liquor store. Now every storefront is shuttered, and there isn't a car on the road...
...heart of our democracy, undermining the national security and degrading the nation's image in the world. For anyone who stepped into the Oval Office now and tried to end the war, he says, "it would be like grabbing the wheel of a car that's in mid-skid. You're just trying to work the wheel to see what pulls you out of it." But the mess we're in can't be blamed solely on the President or the Vice President or the post-9/11 distortion field that muzzled the media, immobilized Congress and magnified Executive power...