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...socks and underwear can go a fortnight between washings. "We're not getting paid to smell pretty," says Lance Corporal Jason Wilebski, 19, queuing for a haircut. In these cramped quarters, tempers chafe. Some soldiers are not coping at all. One young man shot himself in the foot to earn a ticket home. Fights have broken out in food-hall lines. "We feel like we're football players in a three-point stance right now," says Marine Captain Kevin Norton. "We're itching to play...
...Palestine has not been liberated, the land of Arabia is still infested with foreign troops, and infidels are still in control everywhere. For many young men and women in the Muslim world, bin Laden's capture alive would be an unseemly fate. Such an undignified end would at best earn him sympathy or pity but little respect. Bin Laden might still be alive behind bars, but effectively he would be dead...
Obviously the Crimson can put all this speculation and scoreboard watching to rest if it can win the ECAC tournament and earn one of six automatic bids to the 16-team NCAA tournament...
Dillon took O’Donnell down in the extra period to earn the 3-1 victory. O’Donnell won his first consolation match, but then lost 7-0 in the consolation final to Cornell junior Tyler Baier, whom he had previously defeated, 4-2, in the second round...
With Germakian out, Harvard did not earn any points at the 125-pound-class, which in part explains the Crimson’s fifth-place finish...