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...sisters did not overlap, Keating thought she learned enough from her sibling to know what to expect from her Harvard experience—four years as a solid midfielder, the position she had played her whole career. But, things have taken a surprising—and beneficial—turn in Keating’s junior season.While teams often carry six or seven forwards in order to produce fresh rotations, Harvard began 2009 with only four, including three freshmen, forcing Crimson coach Sue Caples to shift personnel. With Keating’s flexible skill set, she was a reasonable gamble...
...story is, in its entrails, basically true. I mean, I don’t remember things very well from the day before yesterday, and these are Deo’s 12-year-old memories. This was one of the reasons I wrote the book as I did, and turned to the first person after the reader has heard the bulk of the story. The more remarkable story is what happened in New York, and that I did verify.The experience of being with Deo, watching him in the throes of memory, especially in Burundi, was spooky. It was not so much...
...Upon his arrival in Afghanistan as McKiernan's replacement last June, General Stanley McChrystal was pretty much presented with a fait accompli: the troops were arriving in Helmand. "The ship was moving in that direction," a military expert told me, "and it would have been difficult to turn it around." Indeed, it would have taken months of planning to change course. The additional troops were needed immediately to blunt the momentum of the Taliban and also to provide security for the Afghan elections. The trouble was, the troops would have been better deployed in Helmand's neighbor to the east...
...because Beck is responsible for filling multiple hours each day on radio and TV and webcast, plus hundreds of pages each year in his books, his online magazine and his newsletter. What's this rich and talented man afraid of? He is afraid of one-world government, which will turn once proud America into another France. He is afraid that Obama "has a deep-seated hatred for white people" - which doesn't mean, he hastens to add, that he actually thinks "Obama doesn't like white people." He is afraid that both Democrats and Republicans in Washington are deeply corrupt...
...largest of these - the liberal group Media Matters for America - has a multimillion-dollar budget. Staff members monitor Beck's every public utterance, poised to cherry-pick the most inflammatory sentences. (Conservative outfits do the same for the likes of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.) These nuggets are used in turn to rev up donations to political parties and drive ratings for the endless rounds of talking-head shows...