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...upcoming meets for the Harvard team will include stiffer long distance competition for both the men and the women as it faces Ivy League rivals later in the month...
...retaliatory measures by Castro, possibly even a crippling of Paya's movement. "The dynamic has changed," says Joe Garcia, executive director of the Cuban American National Foundation in Miami. "We finally have strong democratic players on the ground in Cuba." Garcia's organization once wanted Bush to push for stiffer sanctions against Cuba but has now dropped that demand...
...tyranny, the battle for the hearts and minds of 22 million Iraqis will remain impossible to win so long as the country is under relentless U.S. bombardment. A nagging anxiety among U.S. commanders is that the toll on Iraqi civilians is bound to increase if the allies face stiffer resistance near Baghdad. Although Rumsfeld insisted that the U.S.'s massive aerial blitz has spared not just civilians but also infrastructure targets like roads, bridges and power plants, there was less certainty among some of the soldiers who carried out the attacks. "We want to avoid collateral damage, but that...
...strength of schedule (e.g., average opponents’ win percentage) when choosing at-large teams. Will that hurt Harvard? Well, while the Crimson will play a sub.-500 opponent in its quarterfinal series Mar. 14-16, the teams that Harvard is competing against for a berth will face much stiffer competition (and therefore improve their ‘opponents’ win percentage’ figure). Providence, for example, is two notches ahead of the Crimson in the ever-critical Pairwise Rankings (PWR) and is on track for a Hockey East quarterfinal tussle with Boston University...
...unlikely to see a great deal of time behind the plate. The void left at third by Nick Carter ’02 could very easily be filled by one of the team’s athletic freshman infielders. But at Vanderbilt, Kropf would seem to face even stiffer competition for daylight...