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...captain,” Housman said. “He came in, provided everything we needed from him. He’s leading the nation in three-point field goal percentage. That’s what we need him for, and he also played good solid...
Although Boston College outshot the Crimson 15-3 in the first period, freshman goaltender Matt Hoyle’s solid play limited the Eagles to one goal in the frame...
...with horror to news of the Mumbai killing spree starting Wednesday, having lived through equally devastating attacks on their own soil. But that initial sympathy quickly gave way to hostility as the focus of blame landed on Pakistan - a knee-jerk first reaction, rather than one based on any solid evidence. "It is a tragic incident, and we also felt bad about it as Pakistan is going through the same problem," says Abdur Rashid, a 67-year-old retired government servant in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad. "But it was really unfortunate to see that even before the operation [to clear...
...response is little more than posturing, unlike in 2001 when a December attack on the Indian parliament was attributed to Pakistan, and the two nuclear-armed countries nearly went to war. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has threatened to send Indian troops to the border with Pakistan if solid evidence emerges of Pakistani involvement. In that case, Pakistan would be required to move its own troops from the border with Afghanistan, where they are making headway in the fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants, to the Indian frontier. "That would play into the hands of these terrorists...
...nose into his stomach. It's a very brutal procedure, but they're determined that he not fast himself to death, so they do this to him. [When he found out Obama was elected] he was so excited that he ate a piece of pizza, which was the first solid food he'd had in two years. He promptly became sick to his stomach because you can't have liquid Ensure for two years and eat solid food, particularly pizza. But that shows you their confidence that the election represented some potential justice for them...