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Those in attendance witnessed the Harvard first varsity’s sixth straight triumph over Northeastern and its largest victory over the Huskies since 1968. The race was a showdown of the No. 1 and No. 2 crews in the East and the No. 3 and No. 5 crews in the nation, but the favored Harvard crew kept the race from being close...
...Saddam's forces have adopted a radically different strategy from what U.S. war planners had apparently anticipated. Rather than ceding the Shiite south and hunkering down for a showdown in Baghdad, Iraqi irregulars continue to put up tough fight across southern and central Iraq. The expected popular uprising and joyous welcome of coalition forces in Basra has not yet materialized, and Iraqi commanders have committed forces to slow the coalition advance in towns along the Euphrates, such as Nasiriyah, Najaf, Kerbala and Samawha, further south than expected. Iraqi political militias organized on guerrilla lines have put up stubborn, often suicidal...
...optimistic scenario for a quick and relatively painless victory over Saddam's forces appears to be receding, as the "shock-and-awe" concept gives way to a more conventional contest of division-strength armored formations. Despite Iraqi resistance, it's a showdown that can only have one outcome - but what may well be decided in the coming days is the time-frame and human cost of regime-change in Iraq...
Strachan noted that Tievsky did not attend this year’s showdown, “probably out of fear...
...Harvard softball team split a Sunday showdown against Drexel that was marked by the Crimson’s schizophrenia at the plate and dominance on the mound...