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...attack on Qubah opened in the hours before dawn March 24 with the sounds of a flotilla of helicopters thundering through the darkness over the river valley outside Baqubah. At about 4 a.m. local time, seven Chinooks, four Blackhawks and two Apache gunships rose as one from Forward Operating Base Warhorse, the main U.S. military base in Baqubah. Moments later, the helicopters descended on Qubah, a village at the northern edge of the river valley used by insurgents as a safe haven...
...south of Peshawar, Pakistan, awoke one morning last month to find their streets littered with pamphlets demanding that they observe Islamic law. Women were instructed to wear all-enveloping burqas and men to grow their beards. Music and television were banned. Then the jihadists really got serious. These days, dawn is often accompanied by the wailing of women as another beheaded corpse is found by the side of the road, a note pinned to the chest claiming that the victim was a spy for either the Americans or the Pakistani government. Beheadings are recorded and sold...
Freshmen, today is a day of hope. Of possibility. Of enlightenment. Of hope (We’re serious, you might get Dunster). This morning, no doubt, you were up at dawn awaiting the envelope to be slid under your door. Your unwavering dedication kept you up after last night’s river run despite the fact that you have a paper due today. (Don’t worry. Expos only gives Bs.) Perhaps you were sleeping—a bad move since you can’t hope while you sleep. But today is the day that will forever...
...Dawn J. Mackey ’09, a Crimson editorial comper, is a biomedical sciences and engineering concentrator in Dunster House. She is a member of Harvard Right to Life...
...would seem that there’s absolutely no reason for the Phantom from “Phantom of the Opera,” the heartthrob from “Love Actually,” and the director of a “Dawn of the Dead” remake to walk into a room together, except perhaps to begin the kind of joke that movie nerds like to make up in their spare time. Yet somehow, such a meeting happened not once, but many times over several months.Though lighthearted at times, the result of those meetings?...