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...score to 16-8, the Crimson watched the next five bouts slip away, conceding the match without much drama to an energized home squad.While the coaching staff and players try to focus on the performance of available grapplers, the reality of replacing Caputo and Jantzen has taken its toll, depleting a roster that had received top-25 votes early on in the season during healthier times.Senior Patrick Ziemnik (174), sophomore Michael Sadler (165), and freshman Johnny Motley (133) all shifted up a weight class against the Terriers, creating mismatches throughout the lineup. While Sadler and Motley endured falls against heavier...
...produced a number of tunes still famous today: "A Man's a Man for A' That," "A Red, Red Rose," and of course the New Year's Eve jingle about old acquaintances. Unfortunately, Burns had a weak heart, and strenuous requirements of a farmer's life took their toll. He died in 1796 - on the very day that his wife gave birth to his last child. Poets are dramatic like that...
...Israeli military experts insist that their forces are far more careful to avoid civilian casualties than, say, the U.S. military has been in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still, the high civilian casualty toll in Gaza has put the Israeli military's conduct of operations there under scrutiny, and one senior U.N. official has suggested Israel may have committed "crimes against humanity" in the course of its campaign against Hamas militants hiding among Gaza's civilian population. Palestinian medical sources claim that over 300 children and 100 women were among Gaza's 1,200 fatalities. And the United Nations, Amnesty International...
...sudden plunge in exports has taken its toll on China's industrial heartland - southern Guangdong province. Jing Ulrich, chairman of China equities at JP Morgan in Hong Kong, believes some 60,000 businesses closed in the region, and the government estimates about 10 million migrant workers are unemployed. The downturn has put "huge stress on the job market," says Credit Suisse economist Dong Tao, which "could cause some social unrest. That's my worry...
...Israel struck Gaza in December the Arab moderates initially backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, head of Fatah, while the resisters supported Fatah's bitter rivals, Hamas. Egypt and Saudi Arabia criticized Hamas for triggering the conflict by refusing to extend a six-month cease-fire. But as the death toll climbed and anger rose on the streets of Arab capitals, Saudi Arabia fell silent and Egypt scrambled to find a diplomatic solution...