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...Navy,” freshman skipper Drew Robb said. “I’ve been sailing non-stop for the past week. We’ve had a lot of practice lately.”OBERG TROPHYNortheastern played host to the Oberg Trophy on the Charles River, providing the No. 5 co-ed team with a bit of home-water advantage against the rest of the 18-team field. Harvard capitalized, cruising to a decisive first-place finish, totaling just 153 points in the easy win. “We were really consistent in our fleets...
...Class of 2004 Cup in Washington D.C., the lightweights failed to take the most important one—the first varsity heat—and, as a result, failed to retain the cup for the first time in the race’s three-year history. On the Charles River on Saturday, the No. 20 Radcliffe heavyweights lost all five of their races against the Brown Bears, who improved to 3-0 on its young season. CLASS OF 2004 CUP For the first half of the Black and White lightweights’ first varsity heat Saturday, it appeared that...
...insurgents took control of the Diyala River Valley outside Baqubah almost as soon as the Americans deployed elsewhere in Iraq. That was back in November 2006. The streets of Diyala province then became deadlier than ever, as the string of placid farming hamlets nestled among dense palm groves shuddered with violence. The province and its capital, Baqubah, which lies 30 miles north of Baghdad, unraveled. The once mixed villages have become sectarian enclaves; banks, stores and markets have shut down for fear of murder and bloodshed. But at the end of February, the U.S. began patrolling the valley again...
...years after the invasion. But the situation in Diyala shows why the vast majority--as many as 70%, according to a poll released on March 20--don't want them to leave. With the assault on Qubah, U.S. forces have killed roughly 70 suspected insurgents since re-entering the river valley on Feb. 27. They estimate that perhaps 100 more remain in the village of Zaganiyah, where some stragglers from Qubah may have fled and which U.S. commanders say they must eventually retake as part of the broader strategy to rid the Baqubah area of insurgents. The U.S. believes there...
...gunmen in a house a short distance away, the soldiers came across a white burlap sack hung on a door; it contained a human head. There was no sign of the victim's body, which may very well have joined other decapitated corpses periodically seen floating down the Diyala River...