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...matchup against the University of Massachusetts at Fenway Park has been cancelled. Both Harvard and Yale have open dates today and tomorrow, and the forecast does predict bad weather that might necessitate postponing the game again. But Yale appealed the decision to reschedule for tomorrow, apparently concerned with the strain that three doubleheaders in four days would put on the team.The Ivy League complied by moving the doubleheader back a day and pushing the Crimson out its Fenway date, citing the rationale that league matchups take precedence over nonconference games.“We’re pretty disappointed with...
...shock wore off, and the adrenaline drained away, the strain of being patient and resourceful and strong has begun to wear on people. "All the public mourning seemed to delay the private mourning," said Robert Trent, a professor at nearby Radford College, who sang with his Virginia Tech friends in the church choir Sunday. "People put on a brave face, and it's reasonable that they would react that way. But now it hits them, and they should be allowed to have these private moments...
...Inhabiting the movies-only aesthetic of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez (to whose Grindhouse double feature Wright contributed a funny mock-horror trailer), Wright and Pegg have topped Shaun of the Dead by trans(atlantic)planting a whole gaggle of genres: the English-village comedy, the Wicker Man strain of rural horror, any number of Brit police TV series and its main reference point, the Hollywood action film. But the thing to cherish - and I hope I won't scare you away with this - is how bloody English it is. By which I mean, bloody funny...
...that he bring back the [Baker-Hamilton] Iraq Study Group to report then on three issues-whether the surge is working, whether the Iraqi government is meeting the benchmarks that even the President agrees need to be met, and how the U.S. military is standing up to the strain on its resources." A number of Senators told me they thought the idea was "ingenious," but one of them said, "Sure, but do you think Bush will approve even that?" No, I don't, and it's a disgrace...
...conflict that erupts while the active-duty force is pinned down elsewhere. Even supporters concede the Guard has been so stretched - and has left so much gear behind in Iraq - that they would now be hard-pressed to perform their stateside duties. (The active duty army is feeling the strain too; the Pentagon is considering a plan to extend the tours of up to 15,000 troops currently in Iraq by up to three months...