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...fugitive with a beard, another with a mustache and a third clean shaven. The alert, which identifies the escapee as Mushtaq Ahmad, a possible alias, was sent to air- and seaports as well as land borders in Pakistan, although security sources there believe he will probably try to slip across the border into Afghanistan...
MINNEAPOLIS—In his first pair of starts for the Harvard men’s hockey team, sophomore goaltender Justin Tobe let only three pucks slip past his pads. Factor in one more game, a contest against Merrimack in the consolation round of the Dodge Holiday Classic Dec. 23, and Tobe’s goals-against average has more than doubled...
MINNEAPOLIS—In his first pair of starts for the Harvard men’s hockey team, sophomore goaltender Justin Tobe let only three pucks slip past his pads. Factor in one more game, yesterday’s contest against Merrimack in the consolation round of the Dodge Holiday Classic, and Tobe’s goals-against average is now doubled...
...would be easy to slip into pessimism, says Keelty. But the job of keeping Australia - and the region - safe from terrorists requires prescience, problem solving and perseverance, so that in 2010 we don't look back and "say to ourselves we wish we had done more in 2004." "The reality is that we're doing a lot at the moment. It is frustrating that the bombings have continued," he says. "But it's not for want of trying." While the A.F.P.'s 25th-anniversary year has been a fast treadmill, the results have continued to come. In Suva, Fijian police...
...other times, in other elections, liberals might stew morosely and withdraw. Not in 2004. First the Left got angry at itself for letting the White House slip away, then it firmly resolved not to let it happen again. So the non-fiction film unit of the progressive movement flooded movie and computer screens with talking points for Kerry voters and fence-sitters alike...