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Some teams might feel the pressure of a number one ranking. Some teams might be wary of the target on its back. Some teams might feel shaken after nearly falling to an outmatched opponent in the quarterfinals.But Harvard women’s hockey is not the average team.When the Crimson (29-1 overall, 24-0 ECAC) takes the ice for the ECAC semifinals against No. 9 Clarkson (24-8-5, 15-6-3) tomorrow at Bright Hockey center, the team will do so as both the number one seed in the tournament and the number one-ranked team...
...Northern front, a million Israelis were displaced in the Second Lebanon War, due to an incessant raid of missiles emerging from Hezbollah outposts in Southern Lebanon. With an average of 150 missiles a day raining on its citizens for over a month, Israel had no choice but to target the very villages in which Hezbollah had been taking refuge among civilians. On the Southern front, the citizens of Sderot and the Western Negev have had to endure the continuous Qassam missile raids for the last seven years. The Qassams, coming from the heart of the Gaza Strip, have forced...
Actually it's mostly just Kilpatrick. The son of a Christian musician who played hundreds of churches, he developed a keen sense of the distinction between the Christian message (not inherently funny) and what he calls its social, institutional and political "scaffolding" (a big target). He feels others share that view. "There's a shift," he remarks. "A new generation that without being less Christian is more culturally agnostic" and distanced from the architecture of insularity. "There's a deconstruction going on," he says, "and satire is one of the ways of doing that." Here are a couple of examples...
...minimal damage, it raised unsettling concerns: chiefly, that it could be connected to two prior bombings with similar hallmarks. Last October, a device containing explosive powder was lobbed over the fence at the Mexican consulate, located just a few blocks southeast. The British consulate, also in Midtown, was the target of a similar bombing in 2005. Both of those attacks blew out windows. Those attacks also reportedly took place between 3:30 and 4:00 a.m. and were perpetrated by a person riding a bicycle. Forensic evidence is being sent to FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va., to examine possible links...
Unlike most Palestinian terrorist attacks, intended to cause the highest number of casualties, usually in cafes or bus stations, Thursday's attacker chose a highly symbolic target. Mercaz Harav seminary is the birthplace of the Jewish religious nationalist movement, which is behind the push to build Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. Now, one senior police officer told TIME, there is concern that some bands of armed settlers may take revenge against nearby Arab villages...