Word: 3rd
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...Operation Arrowhead Ripper has been much quicker off the mark - although any offensive that requires the buildup of 10,000 soldiers can hardly be lightning-fast. But more important, it is accompanied by a second, flanking operation south of Baghdad. Over the weekend, elements of the 3rd Infanty Division began sweeping through militant-infested areas like Salman Pak and Arab Jabour. This means the militants facing the American forces in Diyala can't run south for cover. (Even farther south, British and Iraqi security forces have been conducting raids against Shi'ite militias, especially the Mahdi Army, in around...
...from his tent in the bitter mountain cold, knew it was going to be bad news. "I thought it was going to be a major problem," he says. "Maybe another 9/11." While the subject of the meeting was nothing like the 2001 terrorist attacks, for the soldiers of the 3rd Squadron, 71st Calvary unit of the 10th Mountain Division, it may have similar consequences. Two days before the brigade was due to leave Afghanistan after its year-long stint - some units, in fact, were already in Kuwait awaiting flights home - Captain Polk and his team learned that their tour...
...plenty of students sitting in the comfortable chairs, munching on overpriced sushi. Since its opening on October 17, on any given weeknight, the room is packed with undergraduates, doing work on their laptops, sipping lattes, and chatting with friends who shy away from the quieter setting of the 3rd and 5th floor reading rooms. “The ambiance in general is very conducive to students talking to each other, or studying,” observes Mahum Shabir ’10. It is ironic that one of the most social spaces on campus is so closely tied...
...Beauty and the Geek” fame, who is also Olken’s roommate. “It is about experiencing simultaneous contradictory emotions and the stress an accident puts on a relationship,” Olken says.The Crimson Film Festival will take place on next Thursday, May 3rd at 8 p.m. in Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium.Visual and Enviornmental Studies concentrator Pope says she entered her film “How I Became a Cat Person” to get more feedback on the piece, which is also her senior thesis. The movie, a documentary highlighting...
...Carbon 14 analysis dated the human rib contained in the relics to between the 7th and 3rd centuries B.C. Pollen testing also found traces of pine - a tree that didn't exist in medieval Normandy but whose resin was widely used to embalm bodies in ancient Egypt. The presence of the cat bones might have added weight to the relics' authenticity, as black cats were traditionally thrown on the fires that burned those accused of witchcraft in medieval times. DNA tests revealed however that the animal was of non-European origin...