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...Nathan Sturgis, Tim Ward, Danny Szetela, Josmer Altidore, and Quavas Kirk. UCLA midfielder Tony Beltran and Wake Forest defender Julian Valentin, also named, joined Akpan in an online show called “Roster Spot” on ussoccer.com. In one episode, Akpan ran, at 4.60 seconds, the fastest 40-yard dash at the camp. Other honorees include UCLA forward Sal Zizzo, who scored two goals against Harvard in the NCAA Tournament to eliminate Harvard, and overseas professionals Robbie Rogers (Netherlands), Johann Smith (England), and Preston Zimmerman (Germany). —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...this is where the problem of the President's direction on Iraq only damages his cause in the long run. The White House imagines it is girding for battle against the Democrats and the naysayers who opposed the war in the first place. In fact, its fastest-growing problem is with Republicans who carried Bush's water on "stay the course" last fall. That gambit cost the party 36 seats in the House and Senate in November. One can only imagine what that number would have been--45? 55?--had Bush campaigned last fall for sending 20,000 more troops...
...that we’re good and understand that we’re good,” Delaney-Smith said of her young team, which starts three sophomores and one junior, three of whom missed part or all of their freshman seasons due to injury. “The fastest way to getting there is to get wins, and a BC win might count for more than one win.”Perhaps more than any coach save George Mason’s Jim Larranaga, Delaney-Smith knows the weight of such non-conference triumphs against nationally recognized opponents...
...airline. When it flew into Boston last week, it created the biggest stir since Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis landed there in 1927 on its triumphal tour. Some 50,000 people ... broke through police lines to rubberneck at the world's newest and biggest (71 tons), fanciest and fastest (up to 375 m.p.h.) commercial airliner ... At Chicago, crowds jostled for peeks at its spiral staircase and its underbelly cocktail lounge with fuchsia-colored seats ... Next week, wearing a crepe-paper lei on its shiny nose, it will take off for Honolulu." Read more at timearchive.com...
...defense-related research and thus theoretically are producing findings that should be subject to export controls. The report also noted that over 55 percent of engineering doctoral candidates in the U.S. are foreign-born. And while “their research helps strengthen the United States in the fastest-moving new technologies,” according to the report, the statistic also means that non-citizens are engaged in sensitive defense-related research. The auditors told Commerce and State Department officials to up their efforts “to ensure that universities understand when to apply export controls...