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Another Honeywell-manufactured weapon is the SPIW, or Special Purpose Individual Weapon. Each of these bombs sprays out "flechettes"--barbed steel nails one to three inches long. These nails cause more internal damage to their victims than dum-dum bullets, which were outlawed by the Hague Convention of 1907. On December 24, 1972, Fred Branfman, an authority on the air war, explained the effects of the bomb in the Washington Post...
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This year, more than ever, I'd love to see those Terrier worshipers go back to Boston with a taste of their own obnoxiousness. But without Section 18 it will be damn hard. Maybe if the band picked up a new chant; dum-dum-dum...
Anyone who has every been to a Boston University hockey game has had to put up with the Terrier band incessantly banging out the 'dum-dum-dums' followed by obnoxious fans screaming "go B.U." at the top of their collective lungs. Not only is the chant every other minute or so irritating but it's not even a B.U. original. It was first used at Boston College, but the Eagles fortunately let it fade out until B.U. picked it up as a sort of anthem...
This wouldn't have been all that bad except that my roomie plays the bass drum for the band, and it's a little difficult to remain anonymous when you're with a guy carrying a drum with a big red 'H' on it. 'Dum-dum-dum' all the way to Park Street Under. They were even beating it on the Harvard drum...