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...entry pass into the lane with six seconds remaining, but it was intercepted by the Bulldogs’ Travis Pinick.On the fast break, Pinick found Yale senior guard Eric Flato open behind the three-point line, and Flato sunk a trey as the buzzer sounded over the attempted swat of Harvard junior Cem Dinc.The Crimson would stay close the rest of the night, but would never recover from the big run.After trailing by as much as 21 early in the second half, Harvard would get within 10 at 61-51 on a quick release three-pointer by sophomore Dan McGeary...
Even though the military, eager for progress before Pakistan's Feb. 18 general election, has reported success against Islamists in the nearby Swat Valley, the militants' campaign against entertainment in Peshawar has only escalated. During the 1990s, when Taliban rule in Afghanistan forced scores of refugee artists into Pakistan, Peshawar became the capital of pop culture for the Pashtun, an ethnic-minority group numbering some 39 million along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Local producers built a formidable movie industry that served up a formulaic diet of violence and sexism (but no sex) to Pashtun populations on both sides...
...most of the game, rattling off 43 shots while the Crimson defense ensured that Big Green attacks on the net came few and far between. When Dartmouth did manage to get shots off on goal, they rarely posed a threat, and Kessler was able to stop the puck or swat it away harmlessly. “The team played very well in front of me,” Kessler said. “There were a few close calls at times but my team did a great job of letting me see the puck.” But while...
...exists in the new Iraq, saunter up the street, many carrying their helmets in their hands. Fourth, the Iraqi police's Quick Reaction Force, well dressed and well equipped, sporting black uniforms, harnesses for extra ammunition, black helmets, black ski goggles and reflective sunglasses. They are the police's SWAT unit with many of their members in their early 20s and only on the job three months. Fifth, the National Police, a group feared and vilified in Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad...
...country decided to make last year "Destination Pakistan 2007." But there's the rub. Last year was one of the most troubled in Pakistan's history. Terrorist attacks became a weekly?sometimes daily?occurrence. President Pervez Musharraf dismissed the Supreme Court Chief Justice (twice!), triggering massive street protests. Swat Valley, a picturesque tourist spot renowned for its skiing and trout fishing, is now, as my colleague Aryn Baker so vividly described just two months ago, Taliban Central. And to end the year, the leading opposition figure was assassinated...