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...President Bill Clinton's troubleshooter in the Balkans in the 1990s, Holbrooke handled one tough assignment after another. But his present one is even harder. "Pakistan is where some of the world's biggest problems come together--international terrorism, the nuclear threat, the question of democracy in the Muslim world, drugs," says Bruce Riedel, a Brookings Institution expert who advised the Obama campaign on South Asia. "On top of that, it is central to winning the war in Afghanistan...
...period, it was lack of focus and untimely penalties that let Yale run away with the game and drove Harvard to frustration. Both teams took ten-minute game misconduct penalties in the closing moments.“Yale’s got a great team. They always play us tough,” co-captain Jimmy Fraser said. “I think we have acknowledged this week that we know they’re one of the best teams—if not the hottest team—in the country. We know that we have to play...
...Cornell has one of the best guards in the league in junior Louis Dale, to go with fellow junior sensation Ryan Wittman–the preseason favorite for Ivy Player of the Year–averaging 18.7 points per game, second behind Dartmouth’s Barnett.The Tigers are tough at home, but as hard and as ironic as it is for me to say, it’s still just Princeton. They come back to earth this weekend.Cornell 72, Princeton 55CORNELL at PENNThis is the big one. The game that all the Ivy League will be looking toward...
...came out to play,” he added. “Everybody played tough and it has made us mentally stronger for the next matches coming...
...uptick in last year's Burmese poppy cultivation signals just how easy it is for impoverished farmers to turn to a delicate red flower when things get tough. Most of Burma's poppies flourish in the northeastern Shan State, which abuts the infamous Golden Triangle, where the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos meet. (The flowers are also grown in Kachin and Karen states.) And given the omnipresence of opium and heroin smuggling in Burma - the nation is the world's second-largest poppy producer, after Afghanistan - it's hard to imagine how the trade can flourish without at least...