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...It’s the first time we’ve had a winning record in preseason, and our preseason has been tough,” co-captain Bailey Vertovez said. “We’re in a really good place right now, and we’re ready to start league play after this weekend. We’re excited to play Ivy teams rather than teams from these big conferences...
...road trip, its eyes are wide with vengeance as it focuses on the Quakers. “To be honest, we really haven’t looked past Saturday,” Harvard coach John Tillman said. “We are focusing on Penn. [The loss] was a tough way to start spring break [last year].” Crimson junior midfielder Jason Duboe, who led the team with 26 goals last season, insists that Harvard must stick to its inclusive, collaborative style in order to beat the Quakers. “We’re going to focus...
...fundraiser about even with the previous year's. But Randi Yoder, the organization's senior vice president of donor relations, is bracing for a funding shortfall in 2009 even as she anticipates that volunteer numbers will rise by as much as a third. That's a tough combo. Still, says Yoder, "if someone tells us they don't have money but they have time, we'll find a way to plug them...
Harder to gauge will be the long-term influence of Iraq's neighbors on the direction of the country. Iraq shares borders with Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Turkey and Kuwait. It's a tough - and nosy - neighborhood, populated by regimes jostling for influence among the various internal factions in Iraq. The key issue is Baghdad's ability to cobble together a semblance of national unity that will enable it to fend off its neighbors. The fear is that Iraq will become a new Lebanon, a multisectarian country whose diversity is both its blessing and its curse. Will Iraq...
...name of national security. The earlier talk emanating from Moscow of using Latin American air bases for long range Russian bombers (which governments in the region could not confirm) may have been part of the strategy. Medvedev may also take next month's G20 Summit in London to talk tough when he meets with Barack Obama. There is much to bluster about: the proposed missile defense shield to be based in the Czech Republic and Poland; Russian assistance to Iran's nuclear program; and the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-1) is due to expire in December...