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...From a military standpoint, the spring offensive was straightforward. Pakistani troops swept into Wazir villages while American soldiers in Afghanistan braced near the border to smash al-Qaeda fighters flushed out by the Pakistani advance?"a hammer and anvil" approach, as one U.S. general confidently called it, that never developed. Judging from the daily communiqu?s by U.S. military spokesmen in Kabul, the enemy was as elusive as ever, emerging only to ambush American patrols. One such attack led to the death of 27-year-old U.S. professional football player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman...
After dominating Ivy League competition all season, the duo swept the Heptagonal championships in their field of expertise, the triple jump, with jumps of 15.33 meters—just over 50 feet—by Laine and 14.70 by Adjah...
...Sasser.B computer worm swept across the Harvard network and the world this weekend, disrupting classes and frustrating both staff and students...
...Crimson swept the final day to win the division by a game and advance to the Ivy League Championship Series...
...talked about Hendricks a lot. About how it “killed him” to not get to play against Yale, when he was sidelined with back spasms on the only day of the Ivy season Harvard was swept. About how he embraced his move to third base when injuries left little choice. About how “he’s going to get a shot in pro ball, and he deserves...