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...were destroying exploded prematurely in the desert near Kandahar. Later a U.S. Air National Guard pilot killed four Canadians and seriously wounded eight others after mistaking muzzle flashes from a Canadian live-fire nighttime exercise for an enemy attack. The pilot dropped at least one 500-lb. laser-guided bomb on the allies...
Dorit Seideman's daughter Yael, 7, had been learning about the biblical Pharaoh before the Passover holiday earlier this month. Yael's schoolteacher assigned her to write a letter to Pharaoh. "Dear Pharaoh, please come over for coffee," she wrote. "I'd like to ask you to bomb the Palestinians." Seideman was appalled. "Do you really want to kill them all?" she asked. "No," said Yael, "only the bad ones." Right now Israel's official policy is in line with Yael's letter, and that's disturbing to Seideman, who campaigned for the Peace Now movement until the birth...
These days Seideman's concerns are focused on her own family. Her daughters go to more slumber parties, since the fear of suicide bombers discourages their band from loitering as they once did in crowded malls. After a bombing, Seideman knows she has less than 10 minutes to make sure all her loved ones are safe, before the cell-phone network crashes under the weight of panicked calls. She is worried that her daughters will leave Israel when they're old enough, fleeing the violence. A suicide bomb exploded outside her daughters' youth club last month...
Harvard led from start to finish Saturday, pounding a pair of first-inning homers off Brown starter Jonathan Stern. The hot-hitting Hendricks struck first, blasting a one-out bomb with senior Faiz Shakir on first after getting hit by a pitch...
...looked like a bomb had dropped. The whole sky was electric orange,” another Adams resident Michaela O. Daniel ’03 said. “From our window it looked like the Business School had exploded...