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...decided to move them back together. Julie Chu is such an amazing passer [that] she sets up plays, and Sarah and Jenny both know how to put the puck in the net.”The Engineers seized the game’s first lead on a power-play strike from Brooke Thompson, but junior Laura Brady answered with her first goal of the season to tie the contest heading into the second intermission.Rookie Cori Bassett found the net with a mere two seconds remaining to cap off the scoring.Chu’s early helper made it 25 straight...
...promoter's dream might be a team of Swedish women. And there is. Les Seules, a Swedish squad founded in 2004 for a French competition, is one of dozens of female teams formed over the past three years. Captain Louise (AurorA) Thomsen says that when she started playing Counter Strike in 2003, there were about 10 teams; now there are more than 100. She says advances in design have broadened gaming's appeal, particularly in Scandinavia, where gamers abound. (And with up to 20 hours of darkness each day in winter, there's a certain logic to that...
...President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It has moved a second aircraft-carrier group to the Persian Gulf and conducted raids against Iranian targets in Iraq. But the prospect of a military confrontation causes shudders among many U.S. officials, given Tehran's capacity to retaliate against U.S. troops in Iraq and strike civilian targets around the world. Rice says that "the President absolutely believes this can be done through diplomacy"--which is a big reason that Iran has become one of her main obsessions...
...three decades in the Senate, his actual record as a lawmaker was a ledger of modest and narrow accomplishments, mostly related to defense bills. In the past five years, however, the Republican has become one of the Senate's most influential members, thanks to a readiness to strike compromises on a host of high-profile issues ranging from co-sponsoring the anti-torture Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 to anchoring the "Gang of 14" bipartisan moderates who pledged to cooperate on judicial nominees...
...fight over resolutions may seem symbolic - President Bush has insisted the surge will proceed regardless of what the Senate says - but there are important political consequences to Warner's battle. The future of both parties, in 2008 and beyond, may hinge on their ability to strike the right chord on Iraq, defiant of the President yet tough-minded enough to reassure voters for whom national security is still a major issue...