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...landing at 45th overall. Sophomore Brian Holmquest was next for Harvard, placing 55th in 31:45.1, and fellow sophomore Ryan Hafer was 64th with a time of 31:53.6. The other scorers for the Crimson were junior Peter Mullen, 71st after finishing in 31:58.8, and senior James Kelley, 87th with a race of 32:32.0. Harvard’s eighth-place finish was a distant 289 points behind a dominant Iona team, and none of the Crimson men will advance to the NCAA Nationals. Scherf, on the other hand, will travel to Terre Haute, Ind., for the NCAA tournament...
...McBain, defined the genre of the gritty, graphic police procedural novel; of cancer of the larynx; in Weston, Conn. Under his real name, he wrote the acclaimed 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle and the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but none approached the popularity of his 87th Precinct series, which, beginning with 1956's Cop Hater, followed the personal and professional lives of a team of utterly human cops solving brutal crimes and paved the way for countless crime writers and hit TV shows like Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue...
Already this season, Harvard has also lost to William and Mary on a goal in the 87th minute as well as tied Northeastern despite outshooting the Huskies...
Just ask the boys at the Shkin firebase. On Sept. 29, two platoons from the 1st Battalion, 87th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division found themselves locked in a 12-hour battle against a few dozen al-Qaeda and Taliban guerrillas. It was the fiercest combat U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have seen in more than 18 months and an extreme test of valor under fire. An American was killed by a sniper; quick thinking by U.S. soldiers averted many more deaths. "Most of us feel this strange mixture of sorrow and exhilaration," says Major Paul Wille. "It was the perfect fight...
Landing in the middle of an al-Qaeda stronghold wasn't the way this mission was supposed to go. "If we had known they were there," says Grippe, the top enlisted man in the 1st Battalion of the 87th Infantry Regiment, "we would have landed someplace else." The U.S. troops didn't have the men or firepower to scale the rocks and wipe out the enemy fighters. But Perez and the others in command remembered the 1993 Somali fire fight--a panicky retreat in which 18 Americans were killed--and they decided to dig in. "We didn't run from...