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...only thing everyone agrees on is that the fighting was exceptionally fierce, revealing a higher level of organization and coordination by the insurgents than had been seen before. The G.I.s drove into synchronized attacks on opposite ends of Samarra, about 70 miles north of Baghdad, as twin U.S. convoys escorted trucks delivering new post-Saddam currency to two city banks. The Americans were on general alert, traveling with plenty of heavy armor...
...Wednesday, his route to Pennsylvania was not that of a man driving at gunpoint or of thugs with a prisoner in the trunk. It was oddly circuitous and left a clear electronic trail. Automatic-toll charges, an ATM record and a gas receipt suggest he drove northeast to the town of Newark, Del., then west and finally north into Lancaster County. The gas receipt also included charges for bottled water and soda, odd purchases during a gangland...
...strident opposition of locals—like the fool who said of Harvard’s proposed modern art museum in the Riverside neighborhood, “if you build it, we’re going to bomb it”—that drove the University from pursuing further expansion in Cambridge; it was the unwillingness of many city council members to reign in those radical elements and work to help find meaningful solutions to Harvard’s space crunch on this side of the river...
...same time as the University is seeing its revenue sources drying up, spending increases of over 10 percent in certain cardinal budget areas—student aid, compensation and costs associated with maintaining the physical plant—drove expenditures higher in FY03...
...frustrating,” Rogus said. “They...had good help defense, so that every time we drove the lane, there were at least two people there...