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...breaks finally went the right way for the No. 20 Harvard women’s soccer team yesterday at Ohiri Field as a controversial goal from junior forward Beth Totman in the 32nd minute lifted the Crimson to victory over Hartford. The Hawks bench blamed the goal on a blown offsides call, but either way, the final score was 1-0 Harvard (9-4, 3-2 Ivy) and the Crimson’s three-game losing streak is over...
...Alliance, and its U.S. backers, to show that the Taliban can be beaten. And much hinges on the outcome, because if Northern Alliance troops backed by American tactical air support aren't up to the task, the U.S. and Britain may be forced to consider mounting a full-blown invasion next spring...
Vietnam creates blacker, deeper realities for the individuals. Sissy, in quite possibly the play’s most powerful moment, treats a patient to whom she had previously given a picture of herself for support. Now dying, with his arms and legs grotesquely blown off, he returns the picture to her. The intense personal connection in a situation of such horrid human destruction is something Sissy is barely able to handle. Newhall plays the scene with a near-perfect, wonderfully understated sense of unresolved guilt as she watches the soldier convulse in terrible pain...
...want to stay, they will help me,” she thought. Instead of handing Lash more grant money, “they pulled out files and told me my package would be a little lower next year since my family had made $1,000 more. I was blown away.” Lacking funds to stay at Harvard, Lash continues to look at Universities in Italy, France, and Spain...
...accelerate the collapse of the Taliban regime by signaling to its fighters that the fundamentalist militia is unable to protect its territory from U.S. attack. By the array of forces it has assembled around Afghanistan, it is plain that the U.S. is not planning to launch a full-blown invasion, instead focusing on expanded special operations of the type seen around Kandahar over the weekend. The infantry, in any ground war against the Taliban, remain the troops of the opposition Northern Alliance...