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...both sides the premium goal is U.S. support, and the tactical priority is to avoid being held responsible if the process breaks down, as the track record suggests it very well may. The best hope for success, in fact, may be the very exhaustion that has set in among both peoples after four years of bloodletting. Still, Secretary of State Condolleeza Rice?s absence from Tuesday?s talks signaled Washington?s own caution. Having been burned at Aqaba, this time the administration is going to cheer the parties on hold back on intervening directly to force the pace...
...hospital at the prison, staffed by 200 highly trained medical personnel. The number of detainees in U.S. custody is currently about 3,000. (The interim Iraqi government also houses prisoners there.) No date has been set, but the military would like to close the facility altogether, officially to avoid more insurgent attacks but, what's more, to wipe out the blot that is Abu Ghraib...
...urban vision: "We are not judging [future residents] by how much money they have but by their commitment to enjoying a better quality of life. We have to think about how to make Shanghai a green, livable place." Yue notes that his plan integrates commercial and housing areas to avoid creating residential ghettos?a common criticism of satellite towns?and that high-tech parks nearby will send a stream of scientists and engineers to live in Pujiang, thereby spawning a self-sustaining environment independent of Shanghai. The development also offers multi-income housing, in which the cheapest apartment will cost...
...potent on the power play, striking 16 times with a man advantage. The Crimson has been assigned the second fewest penalty minutes per game in the nation this season—only Northeastern has fewer—but neutralizing the line will hinge, in part, upon whether Harvard can avoid succumbing to the contest’s predicted ugliness and taking unnecessary penalties...
...early nerves were an indication of the huge importance of the matchup, with the Quakers trying to put a stranglehold on the Ivy League while Harvard battled to avoid its third loss...