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Wednesday's bloodbath in Baghdad is a stark reminder that while the U.S. troop surge into the capital has brought a significant decline in sectarian killings by Shi'ite death squads, the Sunni insurgency and its terror attacks on Shi'ite civilians have continued to take a dreadful toll. More than 150 people were killed Wednesday as explosion after explosion rocked Shi'ite neighborhoods: The attacks left more than 100 workers dead in a Shi'ite neighborhood food market; more than 40 dead at a police checkpoint; and 11 killed in front of a hospital...
...Junior Jordan Weitzen registered a kill to narrow the lead to 27-26, and freshman Gil Weintraub’s kill again brought the Crimson with one point of the Ducks, 28-27. But the Crimson’s 22 hitting errors and 15 serving errors overall took a toll on Harvard’s chances of success, as the Ducks capitalized on these blunders to come out on top, taking the game, 30-27. “We just made too many mistakes to compete today,” Ridolfi said. “We did everything marginally well...
...While Volpe has been injury-free since his recovery from his broken foot, Conroy has not been so lucky. The heavy stress of running took its toll on his legs, causing shin splints. Despite that, Conroy is ready for the Marathon...
...child soldier, to say the least, isn’t the kind of person you meet on the street every day. We hear about the faraway conflicts he’s forced into, but he remains little more than a number in the death toll, a nameless perpetrator of a brutality that’s incomprehensible to the modern, Western mind. For Ishmael Beah, though, such a life was reality—a reality that he renders with emotional complexity in “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Child Soldier.” Beah, a former child...
...great is the potential human toll of global warming that some economists believe that the focus of global efforts should be less on eliminating carbon emissions than on the urgent challenges of adapting to climate change, such as preparing new sources of water or planning for the movement of millions of environmental refugees. Others argue that while such preparations are a matter of urgency because of the warming trend already in motion, at the same time, if carbon emissions continue to rise, so will temperatures, intensifying the crisis. But there's broad agreement on the economic logic of immediate global...