Word: pulling
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...Tigers used a barrage of three-pointers and a late run to pull away from the Crimson, handing Harvard its 19th consecutive loss at Jadwin Gymnasium. The team’s last victory there...
...Princeton rode the brilliant outside shooting of two of its best to stay close in the first half, and to pull away in the second...
...Surprise, surprise. Another three pointer, this time from Princeton, and again it's Koncz to pull the Tigers within...
There is growing concern that local militias now allied with the U.S. are turning their guns on each other as the U.S. prepares to pull back its presence. These groups have been tasked with pacifying some of the most restive corners of Iraq - contributing to the measure of stability enjoyed by the country in the last few months. "We're paying them and training them so they're effective," says Lawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, of America's new partners, many of whom are former insurgents. But there are signs that these groups, called Concerned...
...month, says that the fighting has "by and large" not entangled coalition forces in hostilities. But what concerns officials is how to keep the CLCs in line as the U.S. presence recedes. President George W. Bush said in the State of the Union address that 20,000 troops will pull out of Iraq in the coming months. "When the American troops get out, you will have a vacuum. These guys will filter into it," says a U.S. official in Iraq about the CLCs. "It sounds good now because they are not shooting...