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...pretty determined. They did not just fade away," says the MiTT team chief Major Chuck Markos, whose men were hit with flurries of rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire. "It was significant." The exchanges lasted until shortly before lunch. By mid-day, the district was boarded up, bereft of traffic or life, but quiet. The next morning at about 6 a.m., hostilities started again, with several more hours of fighting before quiet finally returned. By week's end, the scene was tense but trouble free. Cars are back on the street, but many shops remain closed...
...here at Harvard, the closest we’ll ever get to the Final Four is this April, when Boston hosts the 2006 Women’s Final Four. Our campus is bereft of painted faces and “villes” named after our coaches, without the sobriquets given to the raucous student section at Cameron Indoor...
...Gender discrimination, physiological susceptibility, and economic inequality have combined to affect a profound demographic shift in the disease; almost 60 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and worldwide, women continue to be infected at a higher rate than men. As communities are left bereft of mothers and fathers, orphanages overflow, and grandparents are left to care for grandchildren. Worldwide, children themselves comprise one in every six deaths from AIDS...
...Harvard’s student body is not just lacking the progressive vigor that led to the takeover of University Hall in 1969 to protest the Vietnam War, or the Mass. Hall occupation in 2001 to rally students against low worker wages. It is bereft of any vigor...
Your co-stars Jack Nicholson and Sarah Jessica Parker have both commented on your punctuality. Nice and punctual. The two worst words you could say about anybody. I'm bereft of any other kind of quality they could think...