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...period—would help,” said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91, adding, “We just have to be able to be more headstrong.” The Terriers (3-2-4, 3-2-3 Hockey East), however, will present no easy task. The perennial Hockey East powerhouse has always given Harvard trouble—including a 5-3 defeat in the teams’ most recent meeting. Signs are that Terriers coach Jack Parker is not taking the Crimson lightly. He was spotted watching Harvard this weekend. —KARAN LODHA
...Arroyo herself. She is an unpopular President, plagued by corruption scandals and slammed for her failure to improve living standards. Arroyo has condemned the killings, but she will not implicate the military?even as it implicates itself. Col. Eduardo del Rosario, head of a military antiterrorist unit called Task Force Davao, admitted to TIME earlier this year that "individual commanders" might be responsible for the killings...
...Investigations into these deaths yield hardly any results. Of 114 political murders recorded since 2001 by a special police task force, arrests have been made in just three cases, with no reported convictions. Even if the killers are ever caught and prosecuted, their bosses will almost certainly remain unknown or untouchable. Last month three men were sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2005 murder of a prominent antigraft journalist called Marlene Esperat, shot dead while dining with her children. Rynche Garcia Arcones, 24, Esperat's daughter, felt shortchanged. "We want the mastermind," she told the Philippine Daily Inquirer...
...President replied curtly, "No." But he is now embracing the inevitable, and he answered yes last week when asked roughly the same question at the Sheraton Hanoi. "One lesson is, is that we tend to want there to be instant success in the world," he said. "And the task in Iraq is going to take a while...
...anything to say about it, the celebration won’t take place this year. He and sophomore tackle Matt Curtis patrol the middle, while sophomore end Brenton Bryant and junior end Brad Bagdis take care of the outside. Fittingly for The Game, it will be the toughest task faced by either team all season...