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...than 40 raids on houses of suspected insurgents and former members of Saddam's regime in Adhamiya. In July, Colgan led the platoon on midnight searches of a Muslim cemetery next to the Abu Hanifa mosque, where insurgents were believed to be storing weapons. Colgan instructed the soldiers to bang the lid of each crypt; if it sounded hollow, the troops hoisted the 250-lb. granite slab and looked inside. On its second graveyard hunt, on July 4, the platoon netted a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher and 31 RPGs. A later search turned up a stash of the explosive...
Cafer Yilmaz was at work in his bakery on a broad boulevard in Istanbul's modern new financial district at about 11 a.m. last Thursday when a tremendous bang shook down the building's windows and walls. Across the street, yellow smoke poured from the 18-story headquarters of the British-owned HSBC bank, where a pickup truck packed with homemade bombs had just set off a mighty explosion. "That first moment was not at all like you would imagine from the movies," Yilmaz says. "No one was screaming or running. If you had slapped me, I would probably have...
...advantage of any bulk or institutional discounts available for machines and other gym equipment. If Houses cannot plan coordination themselves, the College or Council should offer to help the gyms pool their resources as well—such creative coordination between Houses will guarantee that students get the most bang for Harvard’s buck...
...leave the Quad without a bang, though. Last Wednesday, her final day at Cabot, students threw Guerrero a party at the dining hall...
This meant scrambling for the sidelines, hitting bang-bang first-down tosses and even relying on a peculiar intentional grounding call on which no penalty was assessed...