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...Crimson would never have been in a position to win in the first place had it not been for Hulse, who spread five hits and three walks over eight innings, striking out seven batters and making just one costly mistake—a fastball left too high in the zone that Yale slugger Trygg Larsson-Danforth blasted over the right-field fence for a two-run shot...
...Yale pitcher Chris Finneran lost control of the strike zone, issuing two walks to bring up Rouches and prompting a visit to the mound from his coach...
...were often stranded. Harvard left seven men on base in the game.In the second, a tough third strike was called on sophomore centerfielder Dillon O’Neill with runners on the corners to end the inning, on a day in which the umps allowed for a wide strike zone, given the strong wind.“We didn’t do enough against them—not bringing guys in and not putting the ball in play enough,” Walsh said.Klees was nearly unhittable through the first three innings, but got into trouble in the fourth...
...either Iraq or Afghanistan is helping to train a new generation of officers. Sallying forth from Baghdad's Green Zone in a heavily armored SUV, surrounded by phalanx of contractors carrying M-4's, and picking up a source on a dark street corner is not classical espionage. As one CIA officer put it, "People coming back from Baghdad and Kabul have to unlearn everything they learn there." (See Pictures of U.S. Troops Patrolling Afghanistan's Deadly Korengal Valley...
...There's also the problem that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are ripping apart families. A CIA officer posted in a war zone for three or four successive one-year tours risks coming home to face divorce - or the alternative of leaving the CIA. It's a shame because the CIA right now is actually attracting the best and the brightest, possibly the best recruits since its founding in 1947. (Read Six Ways...