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This year, the Rams continue to pose a threat as they carry the momentum of a 6-1 record, URI’s best start since the 1993-1994 season. The Rams capped off a four-game winning streak with a 62-42 win against Deleware State on Dec. 9, a game in which O’Neil led all scorers with 17 points and captain Yatar Kuyateh registered 11 points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals...
...going underground. Last week some 1,500 Marines at Forward Operating Base Rhino fanned out across swaths of southern Afghanistan, blocking the escape routes of stray Taliban forces, and Centcom said U.S. ground forces exchanged gunfire with Taliban forces around Kandahar. Deploying a bigger U.S. combat force now would pose political risks, not least the possible opposition of members of the newly picked interim government who don't like the idea of foreign troops staying on Afghan soil. They may have to get used to it. On Friday Franks said, "The possibility of increasing forces on the ground is certainly...
...bill would prevent the government from issuing visas to students from countries considered sponsors of terrorism–Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria–unless the applicants are deemed to not “pose a threat to the safety or national security of the United States...
...been hoping for a lavish celebration in the Hamptons. They humored her however, by inviting her to an endless stream of grand festivities in their spectacular home—modeled after the pyramid of the Louvre. Jean-Claude’s work as a noted mime will pose a few problems in their relationship, but Christina will win every dispute by countering his “I’m-stuck-in-a-box” gestures with lucid arguments. Their two children (one boy and one girl) were growing up bilingual with the ability to speak English and mime...
...happy tune on the transition talks between four Afghan factions near Bonn this week, many of them carrying photographs of one or two women present as evidence of a new order in the making. But Germany's Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung offered a more sobering view. "Afghanistan's political reorganization poses the kind of question that ? has no good answers, only ones that pose greater or lesser degrees of evil," an editorial concludes. For example, without an international security force the country would quickly slide back into bloody civil war, but there's no "politically acceptable and militarily effective" force available...