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While the grass drooped and the ball itself seemed to be sweating under the burning sun, the No. 13 Harvard men’s soccer team (2-0) sneaked past Maine (1-2), 1-0, on Friday afternoon on Ohiri Field...
...months ago, after a sweltering day in the field surveying the progress his troops were making in turning Sunni tribes against al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) extremists, General David Petraeus squinted into the Baghdad sun and allowed himself a moment of astonishment. "It's just amazing how quickly some of these tribes are flipping," he said. Amazing, indeed. Petraeus has presided over a remarkable turn of events in Iraq. The most recalcitrant areas of the country-the heartland of the Sunni insurgency-have suddenly become the most placid. The safest place for President George W. Bush to land when...
...Parisians and other French holiday makers who played the safe card by opting for the sunny Riviera were not disappointed, however. Vacationers in Nice, Saint-Tropez, Marseille and other Mediterranean coastal spots were treated to the heat and sun usually associated with summer. The downside of this, returnees from the Côte d'Azur still bitterly complain, was that the crowds were horrendous this year. You really can't please all the people all the time...
...With the sun shining favorably on Saturday, the defending Ivy League champion and 15th-ranked Harvard men’s soccer team opened its 2007 campaign with a win against the defending Atlantic 10 champion, No. 22 Rhode Island. “This is a great win for us,” co-captain Matt Hoff said. “This is one of the better teams we are going to play all season.” Fifteen minutes into the second half, with the score locked at 2-2, Hoff collected a pass on the right wing from junior...
...decade later, the memory of her remains, but how much else has changed. After the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, Princes William and Harry (then aged 15 and 12, respectively) marched through central London, their little heads bowed, toward their mother's funeral. Today, with the sun shining bright on the day of a memorial service marking the 10th anniversary of her death, things couldn't have felt more different...