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...intifadeh in September 2000, the camp's activists, drawn from the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Islamic Jihad and Hamas, have orchestrated at least 28 suicide attacks on Israeli targets. An internal document of Arafat's Fatah organization, written in September last year and captured by the Israelis during a recent sweep, characterized the camp's people as "ready for self-sacrifice with all their means...It is not strange that Jenin has been termed the capital of suicide attackers...
...Princeton’s Ryan Quillian’s junior year has not quite lived up to his sparkling 2001 Ivy Pitcher of the Year campaign. He is 2-4 with an ERA above 5.00, and Harvard beat him in the game Nyweide started en route to two-game sweep. Although he was stellar in his Lou Gehrig Division-clinching win over Cornell last weekend, he and the Tigers’ other starters are beatable. Solid, but certainly not invincible...
...Brown won three of four games against Yale in back-to-back doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday, placing Harvard in a position to win the Red Rolfe Division with two victories at Dartmouth on Sunday. Harvard won Game One, clinching at least a tie, but could not get the sweep, falling 4-3 in game...
AFGHANISTAN Allied Offensive British troops backed by U.S. fighter jets began their biggest combat operation since the Gulf War, launching a sweep through southeastern Afghanistan that some said would be the last major offensive against al-Qaeda forces. About 1,000 British commandos scoured the mountainous regions of Paktia province in what was dubbed Operation Snipe. But U.S. officials said there were several operations under way, with allied troops also preparing to strike in areas across the Pakistan border...
...Crimson hopes to sweep, it will need to rely on its starting line...