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...Harvard men’s squash team took five-time defending champion Trinity down to the wire in the finals of this weekend’s CSA Team Championships at Yale yesterday, but in the end fell just short in a 5-4 loss...
Dhahir sits in his freshly repainted office, separated from the masses and the honking traffic below by layers of concertina wire and sand-filled barriers. The 42-year-old police colonel, his black hair specked with silver and combed neatly across his forehead, oversees a rough part of Baghdad known as "thieves market." A few blocks away, well-armed thugs do a brisk trade in guns, drugs and women, and vendetta killings are becoming commonplace. The police do their best to contain the rising power of criminal gangs--and are making some progress--but all too often the cops find...
...said Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, "cannot be resolved with judicial opinions." As a result, the 19-member Palestinian delegation - backed by representatives from 12 mostly Muslim nations - had the floor to itself. At issue is Israel's controversial "barrier" - an amalgam of trenches, towers, concrete walls and barbed-wire fences that may eventually snake for as much as 750 km, dividing Palestinian territory on the West Bank from Israel. Inside the Peace Palace, Palestinian Ambassador to the U.N. Nasser al-Kidwa said the wall was not about security but about "entrenching the occupation and the de facto annexation...
...this weekend playing its best ball of the year, having won two of its past three games and coming off a thrilling 81-78 victory at Cornell last Saturday. The team has played well on three consecutive Saturday nights, winning two and taking a talented Princeton team to the wire three weeks ago before falling in double overtime...
...barrier—a combination of walls, razor-wire fences and electronic monitors—runs around, and in some places through, the West Bank. If completed, it will extend over 450 miles...