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Given the current economic climate in the U.S., some of the leading fashion and design companies should explore the viability of forming joint ventures or other business relationships with the growing number of independent companies that have a significant reach into the hearts of the urban consumer base. A meaningful opportunity is at hand for a process of collaboration. Yet not one major manufacturer or distributor is involved in meeting this challenge...
Hordon’s current shoulder troubles began against Brown in late April, when he slid awkwardly into third base on an attempted steal. Hordon didn’t even get the base—the attempt happened during a timeout—and he didn’t pitch again until NCAAs. There, a still-recovering Hordon relied heavily on a 56-mph eephus pitch that briefly stymied Rice before the Owls broke through against the big righty...
Kropf split time between catcher and third base last season, hitting .262 while seeing his time behind the plate dwindle as then-freshman Schuyler Mann established himself as one of the league’s best catchers. But he forever cemented his place in Harvard baseball lore last May in a one-game divisional playoff against Brown. With the Crimson’s season down to its final strike, Kropf’s RBI triple to right-center tied the game, and he scored the game-winning run moments later as Harvard lived to play another...
...people from that bench. The Defense Department already has 44,000 Army, Navy and Air Force commandos in its U.S. Special Operations Command, who are as skilled in covert guerrilla warfare as the CIA's operatives. In the basement vaults of the command's headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., sit secret contingency plans to send military special-ops teams to any trouble spot in the world, complete with infiltration routes, drop zones, intelligence contacts and assault points...
...agency tries to pull together rival Iraqi Kurdish forces into a viable guerrilla force that could take on Saddam, it must confront its sorry history in that territory. In 1995 it attempted to organize a Kurdish rebellion against Saddam, but in the end CIA officers fled their base in northern Iraq, abandoning their Kurdish agents to Iraqi police, who rounded up and executed hundreds. The Clinton Administration, fearing the operation would end in disaster, had pulled the plug...