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...Predator fired at a group of Afghan men gathered around a truck, killing at least three of them. U.S. intelligence insists the men were an al-Qaeda band, but locals say they were nothing more than scrap dealers or smugglers. And as the agency tries to pull together rival Iraqi Kurdish forces into a viable guerrilla force that could take on Saddam, it must confront its sorry history in that territory. In 1995 it attempted to organize a Kurdish rebellion against Saddam, but in the end CIA officers fled their base in northern Iraq, abandoning their Kurdish agents to Iraqi...
Harvard jumped out to a 10-4 lead behind four kills from co-captain middle blocker Alex Kowell, but Sacred Heart battled back to pull the score...
Harvard rallied for the next two points on kills by Kowell and junior outside hitter Juan Carlos Cardet, and the Pioneers did not pull closer than three points for the rest of the game...
...unusual enough to carry them through, for at least a merchandising cycle or two. The girls also attempt a cover of The Smiths' angst anthem How Soon Is Now? Not quite Britney's style. And with extra distortion and an angry Minnie Mouse on vocals, they even manage to pull it off. Like other manufactured acts before them, Tatu's appeal may not outlast their novelty value - or even their teens. Shapovalov, already advertising for their successors, may be around a bit longer...
...Stocks And Glass Houses First it was Donald Rumsfeld attacking "old Europe." Now Alfred Berkeley, vice chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, says that Europeans seek "to pull us down to their own miserable levels of opportunity and performance." He cast this hostile stone in a letter last week to the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board, lobbying against a proposal from the International Accounting Standards Board that would count stock options as expenses. As corporate scandals mounted last year, the idea got high-profile support from investors like Warren Buffett. But Berkeley's attack - he also slams accountants, "the shareholder...