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...made a conscious decision that this year will be better, we’re going to go undefeated in 2005,” Banfield says. “Looking back to November when no one thought we would make it this far, when everyone was turning their heads and laughing if you ever thought Harvard was making the NCAA tournament. And we proved them wrong. And that’s what our team is about—thriving in challenge...
...three men stepped out of an alley and fired rocket-propelled grenades, splitting apart the vehicle. In the brief moment he was conscious, he saw the blinding flash of the explosion and the dead body of his gunner sprawled across the back seat. Days later, doctors in Iraq e-mailed surgeons at Walter Reed to say that Jurgersen had flatlined twice in the field hospital in Balad, before being flown to Landstuhl. Like many other soldiers who've landed here during past two years, it was not Jurgersen's first evacuation. Last June, he survived a bullet that pierced...
Right now, the worst place to be in the fashion business is in the middle. High-end labels are holding their ground, but sophisticated yet price-conscious clothing chains at the lower end of the market have partly usurped spots once occupied by moderately priced lines trading more on quality than trendiness. And the upstarts' sprightly styles, often pinched from designer labels, are forcing the big brands to rely on craftsmanship and extravagant materials to grab their customers' attention. "What's driving our business is the 'Bang! I'll have it' impulse that only occurs if something is special," says...
...House for a new building to house the intelligence chief and his staff. Symbolically at least, it indicates that the DNI--who has the authority to hire 500 employees but whose role in the byzantine intelligence bureaucracy is still not entirely clear--will have a solid foothold in turf-conscious Washington. The news came as a particular blow to Pentagon boosters, who are fearful that the DNI will threaten the Defense Department's 80% share of the $40 billion U.S. intelligence budget...
...problem of forgetting is a theme of German history and historiography, this is not only the result of conscious repression. It comes also from the sheer unrepresentability of the extent of horror inflicted and suffered during the twelve years of the Third Reich...