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...million Colombians are estimated to have moved into Ecuador with them. (Ecuador has recognized about 60,000 as war refugees.) Muddy Ecuadorian border villages like Puerto Nuevo are growing and are now overwhelmingly Colombian, says Fabian Narvaez, head of the Ecuadorian Army's 4th Division, which defends that turf. Most, he says, are poor and hard-working; but "some of these settlers are probably tied to illegal activities," he says, adding that informants often give the FARC early warning of Ecuadorian military patrols...
...games that it’s easy to drop one. We were really focused going into the last game. We were on a mission.”HARVARD 7, YALE 3In the fourth and final game of the weekend series, Harvard claimed victory, sweeping Yale on its own turf. Sophomore slugger Lauren Murphy knocked in four runs, going 2-for-2 with two walks. After back-to-back singles by freshman Ellen Macadam and junior Hayley Bock, Murphy drove them in on a single to center in the opening inning. In the third, Murphy launched one down the left field...
...pretty colors. But when I tried out Callaway's new irons at my local range, I was immediately struck by how different they looked and felt. Instead of a thin base, the i-brid, as it's called, has a broader, flat sole that can sit on the turf only one way--the right way, at the angle that virtually guarantees the ball will get into the air. "With the i-brid, you make a regular swing, and you get loft and distance," says Brian Groves, vice president at Callaway. The clubs are also weighted differently from those designed...
...there was no progress. This time, however, nearly all the Senators, including most Democrats, opened their comments by praising the general and the ambassador for their fine work-noting the reduced casualty rates and the success against al-Qaeda. The debate had finally moved on to more fertile turf: If things were going so well, why were Crocker and Petraeus so reluctant to come home...
...Senator who mined this turf most profitably was ... Barack Obama (a surprise, since you never expect a presidential peacock to be succinct or acute enough in these bloviathons). Obama hit Petraeus and Crocker with an artful series of questions about the two main threats: Sunni terrorists like al-Qaeda in Iraq, and Iran. He noted that al-Qaeda had been rejected by the Iraqi Sunnis and chased to the northern city of Mosul. If U.S. and Iraqi troops succeeded there, what was next? He proposed: "Our goal is not to hunt down and eliminate every single trace of al-Qaeda...