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Administration officials said that they had already tried several times to support a coup, with no success. Iraq is a “horrific police state” where a conspiracy has little chance of success, as one American official said. Hussein has thrown out United Nations weapons inspectors, and he has recently been moving surface-to-air missile batteries into the no-fly zones, endangering American and British aircraft that patrol the area. Hussein has used chemical weapons on his own people, and fired missiles at Israeli cities during the Gulf War—even though Israel took...
...acceptance speech, Farrell acknowledged that he was in an “odd position.” By virtue of his profession, he said, “goodies” were thrown his way. “[But] because of where my heart is, this means more than anything else,” he told the audience. “John F. Kennedy [Jr., ’40] was and remains an inspiring figure to me. The fact that the award is being presented in the Kennedy School moves me more than would be expected...
...century." Some French see national identity challenged by immigration and the rise of Islam; they witness governmental powers ineluctably shifting from Paris to the European Union. They fear that an American-style, unfettered free-market economy has nibbled away at social cohesion. And so they have thrown their support to Le Pen, a man who promises to turn back the clock, to rebuild a world where to live in France means that you speak, eat and buy French...
Take his use of captain Ben Crockett, the Crimson’s ace and former Boston Red Sox draftee. Crockett threw 140 pitches against Brown Saturday, re-entering the game in the fifth and sixth innings in a game that the Crimson was losing by three runs. He had thrown 148 the previous week against Yale, and regularly throws over 120. And while Crockett was up to the task—he only seemed to get more dominant with each inning—one wonders if the decision to leave Crockett wasn’t a bit risky...
...coach know how many pitches Crockett had thrown? Walsh may be a throwback, but he’s no relic. He knew that senior Nick Carter had thrown 67 pitches by the fourth inning of his first career start a couple weeks back, and pulled him. Walsh is well aware of the pitch count—he has simply decided that Crockett, who only throws once a week, can battle through 120-plus pitches per start...