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...Hussein's deliberate interference, but because of bureaucratic incompetence and failing infrastructure. At the same time, others have observed that although the U.N. has set up stringent sanctions, it has not monitored the Iraqi borders as well as it should. Reporters in Iraq have observed that for every legitimate load entering Iraq from Turkey, as many as 200 enter without permission. Hussein is quick to make use of such loopholes. Meanwhile, his people suffer under the sanctions, and blame the U.S. for their troubles...
...made levee construction Washington's responsibility. Billions of tax dollars from elsewhere--probably tens of billions, in modern money--were spent constricting the Mississippi's channel, so its silt began washing straight out to sea and off the continental shelf. By the 1970s, more than half the historic sediment load was coming to a dead stop behind dozens of upriver dams--especially seven monstrous structures erected on the Missouri...
After Bridich scored on a sacrifice fly, first baseman John Franey hit an infield single. Third baseman Nick Carter, who had struck out twice earlier in the game, drew four straight balls from Duffey to load the bases. Harvard (13-13, 7-1 Ivy) had the Eagles (23-11, 5-7 Big East) right where it wanted them, with star catcher Brian Lentz up. The sophomore nailed a line drive, but the ball went straight into the glove of B.C. center fielder Jarett Mendoza to end the game...
Shull, however, got Thoke to fly out to right for the second out, and after pitching around Koppel to load the bases, got sophomore Monica Montijo to ground out to end the game...
...thought in the dream: "Ah, you know, the CIA tried years ago to make that beard fall out with depilatories, in order to make the Dictator look ridiculous and discredit him. And, by God, it looks now as if the depilatories are finally working! Forty years later! Get a load of that air-conditioned beard...