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...point in the season,” Gelardi said. “The schools we were competing against have been able to be outside for weeks now and for us it was the first time we were able to pick up some of the outdoor events due to poor weather in Boston...
...Crimson showed improvement on Sunday, taking advantage of slightly warmer weather to shoot a 332. The score gave the team a two-day total of 676, placing Harvard 48 shots behind first-place Georgetown...
Once Bush took office, some critics say, his Administration should have acted faster to deploy armed Predator spy drones to start hunting for bin Laden once the winter weather cleared in early 2001. The first successful test of an armed Predator was in February 2001. However, the lethal planes weren't used in Afghanistan until after 9/11. CIA officials were worried that bin Laden and his Taliban hosts might learn how to evade or shoot down the drones when there were few available, and the agency was also concerned that assassinating enemies with the Predator would provoke an international outcry...
...later, 49 retired U.S. military generals and admirals, including William Crowe, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, urged President Bush to delay building the system until the bugs are worked out. Among other things, no one knows whether the system will work at night or in bad weather...
...inaugural address, "Who am I that I may do this?" But shortly after taking the throne, she recognized the independence of Indonesia, ending 346 years of colonial rule, and she later helped guide her country through the social upheavals of the 1960s. Juliana's popularity helped the monarchy weather political storms when her husband was accused of accepting payoffs in 1976. Four years later, at 71, she abdicated to her daughter Beatrix...