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...Second Lt. Graham Ward, who was conducting house-to-house searches in western Baghdad in the days before the kidnapping, said: "They tie our hands behind our backs and expect us to climb monkey bars...
...your territory on the John Harvard Statue has its appeal, but your hard work is gone with the sweaty hands of tomorrow’s unsuspecting tourists. However, Keller C. Rinaudo ’09 is making his mark in a more permanent way—building a rock-climbing wall in a squash court in the basement of Lowell House. After climbing MIT’s bouldering wall last year, Rinaudo approached the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Lowell with a plan, got approval, raised $45,000, and started building in July. Karl R.R. Kuryla, a Harvard Business...
...Such a conclusion certainly jibes with the facts on the ground: Iraq has become a charnel house with a current average of around 100 Iraqis killed every day in rampant sectarian bloodletting, while the U.S. casualty count continues to climb at a steady clip - October 2006 is currently on track to be the third-deadliest month for U.S. troops since the invasion of Iraq. The U.S. has long recognized that the insurgency can't be eliminated by military means; instead it hoped that it could be defanged by a national reconciliation process pursued by the elected government, which would coax...
...Until a couple of years ago monkeys used to climb the PTI building and try to raid its offices. One of my predecessors glued shut the windows in our office to keep the marauding animals out. The arrival of the langur took things to another level. With their sharp teeth and long, muscular tail that can swot an errant ape from a couple of feet away, langurs are scary to humans - not just a smaller rhesus monkey. Khan says business is good, despite the recent proliferation of competitors. The company he works for employs twelve langurs, including two that...
...Cross.NOTESNyamekye celebrated his nineteenth birthday on Saturday with the goal-stopping thriller....The Crimson now has nine points in Ivy play....Brown held a 8-1-1 record entering play this past week, having sustained its only loss to No. 3 Saint Mary’s. Harvard will likely climb into the national rankings after its upset win.—Staff writer Gabriel M. Velez can be reached at gmvelez@fas.harvard.edu...