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...outfit known as Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, wasn't new to Iraq last year when it moved into Haditha, a Euphrates River farming town about 150 miles northwest of Baghdad. Several members of the unit were on their second tour of Iraq; one was on his third. The men in Kilo Company were veterans of ferocious house-to-house fighting in Fallujah. Their combat experience seemed to prepare them for the ordeal of serving in an insurgent stronghold like Haditha, the kind of place where the enemy attacks U.S. troops from the cover of mosques, schools...
...1st arrondisement. The Coen brothers crunch their black comedy into a black hole of cross-cultural misunderstandings. Buscemi, whose Coen-nections cover five features, from Miller's Crossing to The Big Lebowski, plays a tourist reading a guidebook in the Paris Metro. "Never make eye contact," the book advises. But it's too late; he has inadvertently done just that with a woman on the opposite platform. Her beau takes offense, and Buscemi finds himself the injured party in a bout of romantic gamesmanship. Nasty, natty...
...going on throughout the whole country,” senior heavyweight Laura Martin said. “There has always been a novice program separate from the varsity, but now, we’re using the fastest freshman up into both the 2nd varsity eight and 1st varsity eight to get the best speed...
...somebody, and it sure wasn’t going to be Dick Cheney. Bush decided on the upper middle class; though he cut taxes dramatically for the wealthiest 1 percent of taxpayers, he did very little for the upper middle class, those taxpayers between the 50th and the 1st income percentiles. This group wound up paying a larger share of the nation’s tax burden—so much so that Bush could cut taxes in a big way for the wealthiest while still claiming, correctly, that he was shifting taxes to the wealthy. Bush covered...
...materializing last night with the announcement by UC Vice President Annie R. Riley ’07 of the timeline for elections and applications to the newly-named College Events Board. For those who wish to represent their House based on a popular vote, Riley announced a May 1st deadline for candidacy declaration, with campaigning and elections lasting from May 2nd to the 5th. Riley said that candidates who wish to apply to the new Board independent of their House will be able to announce their candidacy on the website fun.college.harvard.edu. Applications to the board will be available online...