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...tent, one of three dozen pitched along Rafah's main street. It has been his home since last month, when Israeli troops bulldozed his house in Block O, the section of the refugee camp next to Termite. With a rake, Najjar gathers cigarette butts and candy wrappers swept into the tent by the downpour of the past few hours. "It's cold in here, isn't it?" he says...
...communists swept to power in 1949, more than 12,000 troops from the 3rd and 5th armies of the kmt fought their way out of Yunnan province while their compatriots hot-footed it to Taiwan. The dedicated troops set up a makeshift camp deep in the jungles of northern Burma, and for the next 12 years waged a vicious, opium-funded guerrilla war against the armies of both communist China and Burma. They were gradually pushed south until, battle weary and demoralized, they sought sanctuary in neighboring Thailand. About 4,000 men, under General Tuan Shi-wen, settled in what...
That might be a tall order for the Crimson, though, who has swept a Princeton-Yale weekend on the road only once since the 1993-94 season. Harvard owns the head-to-head tiebreaker with Dartmouth, but Clarkson has had the Crimson’s number this season, taking three of four possible points. The Big Green and Golden Knights tied in their only matchup so far this season, so Dartmouth’s visit to Clarkson next Saturday night looms large...
...Crimson’s top four players swept their matches, while the lone Harvard loss came in the ninth spot, where sophomore Kristin Wadhwa fell in straight games...
While Bullock and Blumberg each swept their matches, with Blumberg preserving his undefeated mark, Barry’s was much more hotly contested. He jumped out to an 8-6 lead in the first game, but then hit a couple of poor shots, allowing his opponent to get back into and eventually take the game...