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...schedules in the country.Three big road trips will make up Harvard’s first 20 games. The Crimson opened its season with a three-game series at No. 16 Wichita State in Kansas last weekend. This weekend, the squad heads south to Florida for four contests before trekking westward to California for a week of games during spring break.Opponents on Harvard’s relentless non-league schedule include powerhouse west coast programs San Diego, UC Riverside, and UC Irvine—a 2007 College World Series participant. “The schedule we’re playing this...
...broad sweep of left-leaning metropolitan types concerned about climate change - as well as green campaigners across the world, who laud the congestion-charging scheme he first introduced in February 2003. The original daily $10 toll has been raised to $16, and the charging zone was extended westward last year. The mayor says that if a third of the 33,000 high-emissions cars daily entering central London continue to do so, the new scheme will generate a further $60 million to $100 million a year on top of the $240 million already raised by the congestion charge scheme...
...capital city N'Djamena is that it was so long in coming. Every Chadian political dispute in the last 40 years has been settled by force of arms, and the latest conflict is running true to form. A coalition of Chadian rebels, backed by Sudan, made a lightning dash westward across the country from Darfur and assaulted the capital city. Hundreds of soldiers and civilians died in two days of bloody street fighting before Chad's President, Idriss Déby, with help from the French, rallied and pushed back his enemies. The tense standoff comes as the European Union...
Republicans - Moving westward, Mitt Romney picked up the state's caucus delegates...
Kenya has long been a haven for refugees flooding in from neighboring unstable countries such as Somalia and Sudan. Now political chaos in east Africa's biggest economy is forcing thousands westward into Uganda - and the number of Kenyan refugees has yet to peak...