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...sergeant, whose hand he clutched in a morgue in Iraq just five days earlier. At 22, Salter, from Walla Walla, Washington, is so young that he called 29-year-old Sergeant Kyle Childress "Grandpa." "He always took care of me," says Salter, who lost two fingers when his platoon burst into a bombmaker's house near Samarra one night and was met with a torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle into the dark. The return fire raked his chest; his life was saved by his bulletproof vest. "For 48 hours after that...
...Trondheim's peculiar universe includes anthropomorphic animals, such as the clan of impolite rabbits who sit around the pub all day, mixed with monsters both familiar, like orcs, and new, like the Bermaw, a cute blob of meat that will jump down your gullet and expand until you burst. It all centers around the Dungeon, a giant castle filled with traps, labyrinths, monsters and gold, run as a business to attract adventurers seeking their fortune and fame. Among its many parodies, "Dungeon" manages to satirize modern office life in its portrayal of the Dungeon Keeper as a harried CEO, forever...
...explosive charges against a thin wooden apartment door. Two booms in quick succession echo in the concrete stairwell. The doors shatter inward in a storm of wooden splinters, and the Iraqi and American troops, identically outfitted with US-made M4 carbines, night-vision goggles, boots, uniforms and body armor, burst...
After the half, Harvard caught fire with a four-goal streak. Midfielder Sean Kane burst open the floodgates, crossing in front of the goal and scoring at 9:10 in the third with an assist from Mahler...
...final score of the afternoon, when sophomore Jennifer Sifers poked the puck away at the defensive blue line and outraced the stunned Big Green defense the length of ice before beating an off-balance Dartmouth goalkeeper Christine Capuano with a wrist shot. Sifers’s short-handed burst underscored the counter-attacking nature of the Crimson penalty kill, a strategy that led to Yale’s game-tying goal the day before but came up spades in the finale...