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...Palestinian gunmen in an ambush. Nitza Tzameret was in the third car in the procession, behind an army-jeep escort. When the vehicles approached the Palestinian village of Kafr Khalil, shots rang out. The cars halted, and the terrified mourners poured out. Tzameret and her husband lay in a ditch at the roadside as Israeli soldiers returned fire up into the olive groves. The gun battle lasted 30 minutes. Since then Tzameret has slept no more than two hours a night, fearing intruders in the settlement where she lives, which has no perimeter fence. Each time she leaves the house...
Matthews included a liberal sprinkling of new and unreleased songs in the set, but none of these had the ricocheting energy of his older tracks, or even the cocky swagger of “Don’t Drink The Water.” “Digging a Ditch,” from the unreleased-unless-you-own-a-computer Lillywhite sessions, had a sweet, embracing melody, something Matthews mastered with “Satellite...
...This whole racist T-shirt thing is just a last ditch effort to keep the publicity and sales going for them,” Jeff Sheng ’01 wrote in an e-mail to other students who were planning to protest. “To be perfectly honest, Abercrombie is not fooling anyone anymore...they’re yesterday’s hot and today’s what?...
...these last-ditch efforts to salvage UMass water polo are unsuccesful, one of the nation’s premier water polo teams will have met an untimely demise...
...cabin. Sabur took shrapnel in his leg. The convoy returned fire and called in air support. Three helicopters thundered up the canyon, blasting away at enemy positions. A few days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed a TIME reporter the truck, lying on its side in a ditch. "When we'd finished," he said, "all the Arabs were dead." So were three Afghans and one American. Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley Harriman, 34, based in Fort Bragg, N.C., who had been in the cabin of Sabur's truck, was flown to Bagram, where he received last rites...