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...crucial survival skill. On Saturday Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Tony Blair - in Berlin for their first meeting since Europe's dramatic split earlier this year over the war in Iraq - tried to present a common front, but didn't quite pull it off. "We all want to see a stable Iraq," said Blair, struggling to put the best face on things. "We all know there must be a key role for the United Nations." Chirac was more blunt. "We don't entirely agree on the means or the timetable," he said. Schr...
...With a new wave of anti-French anger rising in the U.S., Chirac and Schröder are preparing for private meetings in New York this week with George W. Bush. Reports from Washington suggest that the Bush Administration still hopes to bust up the Franco-German entente by pulling the Germans aboard and isolating the French. But analysts in both countries say that may be beyond the reach of Bush's team. "The German political class wants nothing more than a reasonable partner in the U.S.A.," says Henrik Uterwedde, deputy director of the German-French Institute in Ludwigsburg...
...first and second overtimes were played at a frenetic pace, as both Harvard and the Stags had a number of shots on goal in their desperate attempts to pull out a victory. Neither team was able to convert...
...from anti-U.S. resistance fighters, documenting an attack on a U.S. position at an old Iraqi ammunition facility. The tape was allegedly produced by Mohammed's Second Army, one of the three groups who claimed credit for the U.N. bombing. This particular cell, the Anbar Branch, did not pull off that bombing, but they claim to have some knowledge of that attack. The video taped aired on ABC News on Wednesday night and can be viewed at abcnews.com...
Harvard did manage to pull within one goal with under two minutes remaining as Fisher took a pass from co-captain Katie Hodel, beat a defender and sent a perfectly-placed cross that senior forward Alisa Sato headed in, but the Crimson was unable to regain possession before time ran out. Harvard coach Tim Wheaton had moved Fisher forward in an effort to get the Crimson on the board...