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...cars. Belts are more complicated, he says, since they may need to be custom-made to a bomber's size. All the time, al-Tamimi fine-tunes the plan, scoping out the target over and over, to prepare for any eventualities. He will check and recheck his information and adjust the plan to any changes--in convoy routes and timing, for instance. He may even do a dry run of the operation himself to be absolutely certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Professor of Death | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...less with the adjustment—Niall T. Prendergast ’09, who spent a year in Germany, said he had no difficulty coming home. “I just started speaking English again immediately,” he said. Others said they simply had no time to adjust. Michalek went straight from her time abroad to a summer job at a law firm, and then back to college. “I didn’t really have the time to react,” she said. And St. Michael’s College’s senior...

Author: By Benjamin L. Weintraub, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fair Aims To Help Students Readjust | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...bringing up who can hopefully get us back to where we were at the start of the season.” Others on the team share this sentiment regarding the development of previously inexperienced underclassmen in the defensive backfield. “We’ve had to adjust since the beginning of year because of injuries and having people play in spots they aren’t familiar with,” Craig said. “We lost our focus, so we need to get back to doing what we did right.” Getting back...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Men's Soccer Stands on Thin Ice | 10/14/2005 | See Source »

...biggest way you adjust your offense is you realize...you have to make less mistakes,” Murphy said, “And the biggest mistakes are turnovers...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Slip ’N Slide | 10/14/2005 | See Source »

...college credits include a 2004 Honorable Mention All-American award, a sixth-place finish at the 2004 National Team Race Championships, and another sixth-place trophy at the 2004 Coed Championships.Johnson has been sailing Lasers most of his life, but since coming to Harvard, he has had to adjust to life in a boat with someone else. Collegiate sailing in two-person dinghies emphasizes fleet and team racing. The fact that the college sailing circuit is more focused on the two-person game has not altered Johnson’s overall focus. “There’s still...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Singlehanded Victory a Threepeat | 10/12/2005 | See Source »

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