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...Serafini, an A Company platoon leader, and Sgt. Adam B. Gitlin, mistreated an ethnic Albanian suspected of a grenade attack on a Serbian bar. The suspect claimed Gitlin beat him during a hostile interrogation. "1st Lt. Serafini attempted to stick his sheath knife with a six- inch long blade into the wall," the report said. "... When 1st Lt. Serafini was unsuccessful in sticking the knife in the wall, he repeatedly stuck the knife into a table." In a second incident, Serafini unloaded his revolver, walked back into a room and held it to the back of the head...
...focus and hunger to win paid swift dividends, as she won the Pan American championships in 1991, 1992 and 1994 and finished third in the 1995 world championships in her event, the epee. (Fencing has three events with slightly different blades and rules. In epee, you score by jabbing your opponent anywhere with the point of the weapon; in foil, you score only by touching point to torso; in saber, you score with any part of the blade but only above the waist.) The following year in Atlanta she won the gold in the inaugural epee category--and another gold...
...TURBINE BLADES A shattered blade could rupture a fuel tank or damage an engine...
...viewer's long gaze. Toad (Ray Park), a bad mutant, makes quick use of his mile-long tongue. A dozen red roses for the blue lady Mystique (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos); this morph magician is the best weird woman in s-f movies since Daryl Hannah's android in Blade Runner...
...parents. Weapons are covered at the tip, and fencers wear meshed masks and, often, plastic chest plates. The kids seem to enjoy the intricate rules of each of the three games: foil, epee and saber. They have to land the tip of the weapon (in saber, the blade is fair game too) on specific areas of their opponent while protecting their own target areas. Fans call it "physical chess...