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...Although the Pentagon's formal statement said Harvey had submitted his resignation, Pentagon officials made it clear he had been asked to do so by Gates. The Defense Secretary strongly implied in his statement that he wasn't pleased by Harvey's decision on Thursday to cashier the two-star general in charge of Walter Reed and replace him, temporarily, with a three-star general who had run the hospital before him. Harvey, who had served as Army secretary since late 2004, was succeeded in an acting capacity by Pete Geren, currently the under secretary of the Army...
...after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005, a million Lebanese in Martyrs' Square demanded the withdrawal of Syrian military forces that had dominated the country for three decades. Lebanon remains deeply divided, however, a fact made plain in January on what some are calling Black Thursday, when a cafeteria shoving match between Sunni and Shi'ite students at a Beirut university set off a day of clashes that tore across the capital...
...teams suddenly themselves found unable to score. After 13 minutes of scoreless anguish, sophomore Kaitlin Martin beat three defenders to power in the winning goal for the Crimson with only seven seconds left.Her goal gave Harvard (1-0) a 14-13 season-opening win over the Crusaders (1-2) Thursday afternoon at Holy Cross’s Hart Astro Turf.The Crusaders began stalling with three minutes remaining, holding the ball to take the game’s last shot, the same tactic with which they scored to earn their sole win of the season on Feb. 27 against Massachusetts...
...potential” attractiveness because it’s hard to get a good look at her face, what with her side bangs and all the millisecond close-ups. The song is actually pretty good, though not as good as “Thursday,” and what I find particularly interesting are the lyrics. Yuki opens by singing, “Once I had a girlfriend / She made my heart just want to die,” and she spends the rest of the song going on about this girlfriend. It makes me wonder two things: first...
...were a lot of them. Director of Harvard College Women’s Center Susan B. Marine wrote in an e-mail “I can’t remember the last time such a large, diverse, and engaged group of students came to an event on a Thursday night...