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...onto Ohiri Field and dashed No. 7 Harvard’s hopes of continuing its stranglehold on its league peers. Racking up 26 total shots—nine of which were on target—and two yellow cards, the Bears used physicality to neutralize Harvard’s wing play and took advantage of set-piece opportunities to minimize the impact of the Crimson’s superior speed. Brown midfielder Darren Howerton, using a peculiar handspring technique for his throw-ins, directly contributed to two goals and was credited with the assist for the game-winner. The first...
...court in highly specific cases affecting few, if any, real people. And it's not clear that Roberts wants to alter that trend. His speeches on the judicial role suggest a man more interested in the steady retreat of the court from public policy than in a right-wing revolution. Unless the Roberts court umpires another disputed presidential election (à la Bush v. Gore in 2000--a long shot, to say the least), the left-right division will matter mainly in the realm of theories and rhetoric, dear to the hearts of law professors and political activists but remote from...
...that’s why they should rule the world. That’s why I imagine, every morning, a world where Puff is king, where we all frolic, hand in hand, dragon wing in dragon wing. Where we are all magical, powerful, kickass, awesome, flying, breathing fire, and chilling together, forever, and ever. And ever...
...raucous right is in an uproar, stunned that their onetime hero, George W. Bush, is going against them on a case that combines three of the issues closest to their heart: immigration, the death penalty and international sovereignty. But the real lesson the right wing should take from the case is that the presidential power they so jealously defend when it is used against foreign nationals looks a lot less attractive when it's applied at home...
...streets of Karbala for hours in fighting that left more than 50 people dead. And a series of assassinations of local leaders across southern Iraq in recent months is widely thought to be a campaign by the Mahdi Army to kill off Iraqi officials with links to the political wing of the Badr Brigade, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. Even Iraq's most revered Shi'ite religious figure, the reclusive Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has been caught up in the violence; several of his aides have been gunned down near his home in Najaf...