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...white pickup rolled up, and the crowd got silent. A body wrapped in a yellow-and-orange blanket was lifted out of the bed. A nurse tried to dump out the puddles that had collected on the plastic mattress of a gurney and the body was lifted onto it. "He was 70 years old," said one of the crowd. "A martyr...
...Iraqi lawyer who had gone to the hospital to visit his wife, a nurse. According to the Washington Post, Mohammed's interest was piqued by a throng of paramilitary guards. A doctor then directed him to their quarry: a young woman bandaged and covered in a white blanket. Mohammed looked on as a guard, clad all in black, twice slapped the woman. After the man left, Mohammed sneaked back into the room and told the patient not to worry, that he would seek help...
...well as the recent fatal accidents at nightclubs in Rhode Island and Chicago as motivation for this policy. Though his concerns for student safety are legitimate, Illingworth’s means of achieving it are less than ideal. Boston maintains high safety standards for its clubs. If this blanket coverage doesn’t suffice for Illingworth, he should discriminate between clubs—not force the burden of proof on busy student planning committees. Events at venues that have a safe history of sponsoring Harvard groups are of low-risk to the University. Clubs new to Harvard?...
...behind Iraqi lines in February 1991. A flight surgeon on a downed Blackhawk, she and Sgt. Troy Dunlap had been taken captive. As they bumped along a desert road in the dark, her Iraqi captor pushed her muddy, bloodied hair out of her face - and kissed her. Pulling a blanket over them, he unzipped her flight suit and started fondling...
...attempted to desert and was cut down by his own men. It was the third deserter killed this way since Monday after months of almost free passage for fleeing soldiers. "The ones the other day were torn up and the Iraqis took one of their bodies away in a blanket. This one will not be different," said Sajit...