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...points), named the League Player of the Week in each of the past two weeks, hit a gutsy three-pointer from far beyond the arc with 37.4 seconds remaining to cut the Crimson lead to two. After two Hallion free throws, Koren Schram hit another three-ball to pull the Big Green within one. But with only ten seconds left, Dartmouth had no choice but to send Hallion back to the charity stripe, where she hit both shots to seal the win. But coming before the Crimson’s momentous comeback was its first-half sloppiness. Harvard committed...
Divestment advocate John Prendergast, who was director of African affairs for the National Security Council under President Clinton, said that Harvard should pull out of the iShares fund...
...widespread feeling that the Pentagon has shouldered the entire load in Iraq while U.S. government agencies better suited for reorganizing political and economic systems have dropped the ball. Other agencies, most notably the State, Justice and Energy departments, lag in sending experts and advisers to help the Iraqis pull themselves together. Uniformed officers say they can pull off a surge, but it won't make any difference if there isn't a larger, government-wide strategy to mend the broken country...
There is one other scenario to consider: it may be that Bush won't pull out of Iraq as long as he is President. Whether it works or not, a surge of 18 to 24 months would carry Bush to the virtual end of his term. After that, Iraq becomes someone else's problem. Bush's real exit strategy in Iraq may just be to exit the presidency first...
Romney needs to highlight his social-conservative credibility (pro-life, anti--gay marriage) while reminding voters he's a Republican who won twice in John Kerry and Ted Kennedy's home state--i.e., able to pull independents away from the Democrats...