With eight returning starters, the unit was supposed to be the strength of the team, even carrying the offense for a while as it found its rhythm. The defense has risen to the challenges presented this season, and the strength of that unit is its linebacker corps. He has 102 total tackles on the year, including an astounding 15 in the win over Bingham plus a forced fumble and a sack. With the defensive line doing its job and keeping blockers from getting to these three playmakers, it is...

(GUIYU, China) The air smells acrid from the squat gas burners that sit outside homes, melting wires to recover copper and cooking computer motherboards to release gold. Migrant workers in...

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WASHINGTON In approving farreaching new unilateral sanctions against Iran, President Bush signaled Thursday that he intends to pursue a strategy of gradually escalating financial, diplomatic and political pressure on Tehran, aimed not at starting a new war in the Middle East, his advisers said, but at preventing one. WASHINGTON In approving farreaching new unilateral sanctions against Iran, President Bush signaled Thursday that he intends to pursue a strategy of gradually escalating...

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