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Harvard surrendered seven extra base hits—four of them home runs—to New Mexico and fell 10-4 in the opening game of the Wells Fargo Classic in Denton, Texas last Friday...
...semifinal affair against St. Lawrence, the Harvard fans seemed scattered and only slightly louder then the force that the northern New York opponent could muster from its 2,000-student base...
...ability to "fill in the gaps left by the Authority's ineffectiveness," have won it considerable backing, even from many who do not share its extremist positions. "It's not just altruistic," he adds. "Hamas knows how to use this source of power to build a solid base of popular support...
Palestinian factions often jockey to lay claim to nonmilitant "martyrs" as a way to expand their base by showing their deep-pocketed generosity. But Hamas does the same for slain fighters in a well-oiled campaign to turn every death to its advantage. One unit arrives at the morgue with a loudspeaker van to play Hamas' famous funeral song. Another unit organizes volunteers to carry the body, draped in a green Hamas flag, to the dead person's house, then to the mosque and then to burial. For Muslims, accompanying the body earns points in heaven. A third unit goes...
...Iraq under Saddam Hussein - a necessity since Moqtada was the inheritor of a distinguished line of militant Shiite clerics who had been assassinated for challenging the Baathist regime. When Baghdad fell on April 9, Sadr was first out of the blocks in the race to build a power base in the Shiite community. Within weeks, Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood had been renamed Sadr City, and clerics loyal to Moqtada had organized security, suppressing looting and restoring basic services...