Word: tigers
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...amidst very stormy conditions—at No. 20 Princeton on Oct. 25 moved Harvard into first place in the league. Jumping ahead with a pair of goals in the first six minutes, the Crimson kept its focus through a 70-minute postponement and held off a desperate Tiger offense to clinch...
...told the ... I tell the girls, I said it's on you if Bo eats Tiger or Blankie, which are two beloved characters in the household. It's on you, because you've seen...
...Tiger and Blankie? Tiger and Blankie...
...conflict in Sri Lanka has long provided lessons for militant groups around the world. The Tamil Tigers taught terrorists everywhere the finer (or more savage) points of suicide bombing, the recruitment of child soldiers, arms trafficking, propaganda and the use of a global diaspora to collect resources. The Tigers "were the pioneers in many of the terrorist tactics we see worldwide today," says Jason Campbell, an Iraq and Afghanistan analyst at the Brookings Institution. (Read a story about the life and death of Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran...
Collateral Damage Is Acceptable In the final months of fighting, the Sri Lankan military offensive hardly differentiated between civilian and Tiger targets. Refugees fleeing the fighting said thousands of innocents were being killed in the army's bombardments. Modern militaries typically halt hostilities when large numbers of civilians are killed. The Sri Lankan army barely paused. Reva Bhalla, director of analysis at Stratfor, a global intelligence firm, says Rajapaksa's "disregard for civilian casualties" was a key to the success of the military operation...