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...sights. I've managed to get the ring of the front sight to sit just inside the slightly larger ring of the rear sight. Now I shift my stance, trying to make the the thin black post in the front sight touch the center of the soldier's belt. The rifle is heavy, and the sight picture-the relationship of rings, aiming post and target-won't stay still. But I've only a couple of seconds left. I squeeze the trigger-"gently," says my instructor, Peter, "so it's a surprise when the gun goes off." Bang! The rifle...
...work is also about recording a moment. She has kept intricate visual diaries, in which all the entries flow together continuously to make a seamless image. The tool belt, too, serves as a “marker of what happened on a particular day, the way my hand was shaped,” according...
...hand, Irvin Faust deftly stepped aside and caught him by the wrist. He then pinned the attacker face-down to the ground using one arm while quickly disarming him with the other. The two then bowed to each other and sat back down. Faust, a sixth degree black belt in aikido from Albany, N.Y., was one of the high-ranking instructors—called sensei—invited to lead the spring seminar of the Harvard Aikikai, which took place last Saturday and yesterday at the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center. The seminar, which drew Harvard students as well as other...
...shout," he says. "He really hates the Shi'ites, even more than the Americans." The terrorist leader may carry his Koran at all times, but his Kalashnikov is never far from his reach, as evidenced by last week's video, in which he is clearly seen wearing an ammunition belt. Bakr and other sources say al-Zarqawi constantly wears a suicide-bomber's belt, taking it off only to bathe, although a U.S. official questioned this. When al-Zarqawi is on the road, his car is said to be rigged to blow up at the throw of a switch...
...week before. “Hopefully, that’s the beginning of our streak for the rest of the season,” Medioli said. “It’s tough to lose any race, even in practice, so to have a win under your belt is that more heartening and it will be much easier to get out and race again.”—Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...