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Relying on untested allies also presents risks for coalition forces. It is instructive to spend a night with the 82nd Airborne's Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, bivouacked in southern Baghdad. An Iraqi informant reports that 12 to 20 suspected resistance leaders from Afghanistan and Syria are meeting in a mosque near the airport. The unit's commander, Captain Tyson Voelkel, tells his men these foreigners are gathering to review plans to launch terror attacks starting the next day. Some 110 G.I.s plus 40 members of the new Iraqi Civilian Defense Corps training with Alpha Company move...
...hidden within the population, so good intelligence is essential to combat the insurgency. Major General Raymond Odierno, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, last week said the accuracy of information the U.S. was receiving was up over the past few months from 45% to 90%. But that's not Alpha Company's experience. Its intelligence officers say the enemy has become more elusive and shadowy, especially in the dangerous Sunni triangle around Baghdad, where locals are especially reluctant to help the U.S. "Most of the stuff we go out to find turns out to be dry holes," says Private First...
...centuries, men have pushed themselves to the brutal boundaries of their powers, striving to fulfill the savage desire to emerge as the fittest—the alpha, even. This animalistic impulse has resulted in brutalizing weight-lifting contests, bloody chariot races, horrifying wars between nations and, at fair Harvard, the Chickwich Challenge. A test of stealth, cunning and digestion, the rules are deceptively simple: consume a hearty, pre-ordered chickwich (or Boca burger for Daniel H. Lassiter ’04), seated and unassisted, in each of the 12 dining halls, save grill tickets and emerge victorious, as well...
...addition to these two confirmed cases, Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) President Joe H. Mujalli ’04 said a Pike member left the fraternity’s Pi Ki Ki party last Thursday night feeling “unexplainably” sick, but did not go to the hospital...
...kernel of the map g-prime, hence it’s in the image of the map f-prime, by the exactness of the lower sequence, so we can pull it back to an element in a-prime, which it turns out is well defined modulo the image of alpha!” leading lady Jill Clayburgh crows. The hapless viewer, meanwhile, may wonder whether he’s accidentally rented a tape of the most recent lecture in Mathematics 272a: “Introduction to Algebraic Topology...