Word: pulling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Iraq war's third anniversary approached, the news fed both doubts and hopes. Saddam Hussein took the stand in his trial for the first time, reminding people of what they were missing. Meanwhile, the brand-new Iraqi parliament met in a capital under curfew to pull together some kind of future amid warnings of civil war. U.S. forces launched Operation Swarmer, the biggest air assault since the invasion, to root out insurgents north of Baghdad. President Bush embraced realism: "We will see more images of chaos and carnage in the days and months to come," he warned as he argued...
BERNARD KOUCHNER No, because of the way Americans went about it. I think it was up to the international community to pull together and get rid of Saddam for the Iraqi people. I have long argued for the "right to intervene." But you have to succeed. To do that, you need the international community standing with you. Saddam had been a major assassin in his country for 35 years. What difference would a few weeks have made? They should have done as we did in Kosovo, setting up a contact group and relying on international cooperation and peacekeepers...
...volleyball team shocked the undefeated league leader. On Saturday, the Crimson was out to prove that the win wasn’t a fluke. Harvard found another gear in the final ten points of its games, using its confidence from the previous weekend’s victory to pull off a 3-1 victory (31-29, 30-28, 27-30, 34-32) over East Stroudsburg (ESU) on Saturday afternoon at the Malkin Athletic Center. The win was the Crimson’s second in eight days over the Warriors (10-6, 5-2 Hay), which did not lose its first...
...netminder John Daigneau’s shutout was ruined 5:41 into the third period Friday evening, when Nick Johnson took a feed just outside the crease and beat Daigneau at the left post. But Daigneau made 34 saves in his nearly 51 minutes of play, after which Donato pulled him to prevent injury. And also, the coach added, because “sometimes when you pull a guy out, he gets an ovation, and I thought John certainly deserved an ovation by himself.” Backup Justin Tobe made a perfect ten stops in 9:26 of relief...
...doubles matches, the Crimson’s tandem of sophomore Gideon Valkin and junior Scott Denenberg defeated the Wolverines’ Steve Peretz and Scott Bruckmann, 8-5, in the No. 3 match. Harvard, however, could not pull off another doubles victory during...