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Junior fullback Cal Johnson leads the Huskies running attack with 99 yards on 27 carries. Northeastern's other offensive threat is Daponde, who has run the ball 25 times in the first two games. Halfback Tony Morgan leads the team with four receptions...
...NOTEBOOK: Next up for the Crimson is a match down the river at MIT Thursday night...But don't be afraid to accuse the squad of looking beyond the MIT match. Harvard faces the daunting challenge of competing against number-one Cal-Berkeley, number-two UCLA and defending national champions California-Irvine in next weekend's Brown Invitational. "It's an opportunity to play against a level of waterpolo we will not see on the East coast," Marshall said...
...thinking about restoring the famed tommy gun of the 1930s to active inventory. Memorialized in gangster movies and in TV's The Untouchables, the Thompson submachine gun, it turns out, can still outmatch some of its modern successors: one of its .45-cal. slugs, spewed out at a rate of up to 800 rounds a minute, will knock down even the biggest bad guy. By contrast, the Israeli-made Uzi, the current weapon of choice among many criminals and some lawmen, uses smaller bullets; one hit is often not enough...
Soon the men reach what seems to be their destination. Two soldiers begin digging a position from which they could fire a 5.56-cal. machine gun at approaching Iraqi vehicles. But another soldier appears out of the darkness and tells the machine gunners that their platoon has ended up in the wrong place. It is too close to the road. In fact, it turns out that the platoon would be in the fire zone if the 82nd were to launch a mortar attack...
...next day Ducc was ready to fire on his own. When it got dark, Ducc and a few others headed on foot over railroad tracks and through alleys to the enemy neighborhood. This time Ducc was carrying a deuce-deuce, a .22-cal. pistol. The rival gang was waiting, armed and hidden, but Ducc spied two on the street who weren't even looking at him because, he says, "I'm so small." He fired and hit one of them. "I saw a lot of blood," he remembers. He froze, so shocked he was unable to move...