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...humvee, second in a convoy of five from the 3rd Battalion, 116th Cavalry, deviated ever so slightly from the tracks of the one in front, he says, setting off an antitank mine. The blast blew through the engine block with such force that the armor plating jury-rigged to the floor shattered his ankles instantly. Shrapnel sliced into his left arm, cutting an artery. He would have bled to death right there if three fellow soldiers hadn't rushed him to the field operating room in a record 13 minutes. Military doctors--astonished Braddock had survived--pulled a blood vessel...
...opening frame and a final wave-off in overtime, permitting the 1-1 final. The initial pair of whistles came during a pivotal stretch of 5-on-3 play to end the first period. With goalie Martin facing a relentless Yale onslaught, the referee blew the play dead during a fracas in front of the net, despite Martin failing to control the puck before it eventually squirted over the line. Only seconds later, Jenna Spring’s slapshot from outside flew over Martin’s right shoulder aand into the top shelf of the net, but was disallowed...
Last week it was his mouth that went off course - blew out of its bindings - after Miller admitted on 60 Minutes to skiing a race hung over. He was "wasted," as he put it, after securing the overall World Cup title the day before. In its promos for the show, CBS said he skied drunk, which Miller denies. But he has never been the least bit shy about his aprs-ski technique. "There's been times I've been in really tough shape at the top of the course," he told 60 Minutes. The statement was typical of Miller...
Harvard head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith had to resort to some creative semantics, on the floor after the Crimson blew hot and cold in a 91-76 loss to archrival Dartmouth on Saturday night, to describe what separated her talented but losing team from past championship contenders in Cambridge.“You know, new-young,” she said. “New-young, is all we are.”The Big Green (8-3, 1-0 Ivy) gave 85 percent of its playing time to five starters—four of them upperclassmen—including...
...Among the other intelligence foibles described in the book: the U.S. discovered Western-style ATM cards on Abu Zubaydah after his capture, but "there is little evidence that an aggressive investigation" into the bank accounts was ever made, and a gaffe by a CIA officer in Washington last year blew the cover of spies in Iran and enabled Tehran to "roll up" the CIA's network of agents there. (A CIA representative denies both stories...