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Junior quarterback Garrett Schires, who suffered a first-grade MCL sprain in the fourth quarter of last weekend’s game against Brown, is back to full-strength and will serve as Fitzpatrick’s backup this week...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nor'eastern Storms Into Cambridge on Saturday | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

Coming into camp this year, Johnson was listed as the backup right guard—and didn’t even appear on the depth-chart at center...

Author: By David H. Stearns, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Where There's A Will... | 9/26/2003 | See Source »

...trouble began just a few weeks ago when the team traveled traveled to England for some preseason matches. It was there that Johnson—a backup last year—separated his shoulder, creating mild unease. Yet teams rarely ever operate at full strength, and Harvard still had two healthy goalies in juniors Jamie Roth and Conrad Jones...

Author: By Allison D. Bates, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Keeping at It | 9/23/2003 | See Source »

...house and begin clearing it. Speaking in Arabic and using a megaphone, Dan instructed any civilians inside to come out. About 10 women and children emerged from the building. Almost immediately, Kalashnikov fire erupted from several surrounding buildings, including the roof of a nearby school. The troops called for backup vehicles and returned fire but failed to quell the shooting. One soldier was hit in the back; the bullet went through his ceramic vest, ripping his shirt but failing to pierce the skin. The unit's bloodhound wasn't so lucky: it had to be evacuated after taking a bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The War On Hamas | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

After an hour-long fire fight, Dan managed to load his men into the backup vehicles and speed out of the city. It was already morning, and the unit's exhaustion was compounded by the realization that the targeted suspects had got away. At 9 a.m., the convoy pulled into the base at Beit Lid. The soldiers stumbled to their barracks to sleep; after they awoke, they would spend hours reviewing how the operation went wrong. By the afternoon, Dan had moved on. "You don't always get your target. It happens," he says, dripping with sweat from a three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The War On Hamas | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

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