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After the final out, a called third strike against Mann, Harvard shook hands with Missouri and gathered in front of its own dugout for a customary last team meeting...
...faithful dog, Diogenes. But people married and reconciled and died and before I knew it the book was over. It ended as many of Dickens novels end, with the older generation fading to insignificance, their wrongs righted or forgotten, and the younger generation brave and happy, ready to strike out on their own. And as I closed Dombey and Son, my regret was mingled with fierce curiosity about their fates, and a sense that the unwritten part of their livesthe part that did not hew to the Dickensian pattern I knew so wellmight be more interesting than the part that...
...part because of a new crop of instructors, tested by recent combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, who have come back to teach cadets about the moral ambiguities and psychological rigors of counterinsurgency and nation building. Captain Chris McKinney led a company of a hundred men through the bloody strike on Karbala before teaching infantry tactics, and the importance of constant, fierce adherence to Army standards, to West Point cadets. Major Jason Amerine, a Special Forces officer who fought alongside now-President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan, uses his international relations class to shake his cadets out of any comfortable misconceptions about...
...government," said a Seoul-based Western diplomat. Which box is blacker? According to a poll published last week by the Munhwa Ilbo daily and the Korea Society Opinion Institute, nearly one in two South Koreans say they would support North Korea if the U.S. launches a military strike without the South's consent. In a poll conducted last year by Seoul-based Research and Research, 39% of respondents said the biggest threat to South Korean national security was the U.S., while 33% said they feared North Korea the most...
...that race, Harvard enjoyed its finest start of the season and had established a six-seat lead over the rest of the field by the 1,200-meter mark. Navy countered with a strong surge near the midway point, but Harvard countered that move with an impressive midway strike that put the Crimson up near a length heading into the final...