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...group of insurgents and an arms cache. Pantano's platoon set out for the targets, two large compound-style Iraqi houses, just off a highway. As the Marines approached one of the houses, a car sped away. The Marines shot out the tires, and Pantano arrived with his command element--a Navy corpsman and a radio operator--to check...
Fuerza Latina President Felipe A. Tewes ’06 described the speech as a “unique event” but also one that expressed an important element of the Latin American experience...
...largely on the force of his personality as well as the strength of his relationship with the President. After the announcement of his nomination, Negroponte returned to the State Department. While grabbing a snack in the cafeteria, he bumped into a fellow ambassador, who complimented him for maintaining the element of surprise until the President was ready to break the big news. "The first requirement of the national director of intelligence," Negroponte deadpanned, "is being able to keep a secret." But unless the officeholder can make sure secrets are as well shared as they are guarded, no one will...
...club always had an element of farce. At the first gathering, 18 (or 21, depending on whose account you follow) members of the class of 1796 gathered in the dorm room of classmate Nymphas Hatch. The group decided that, at every meeting, one member would provide a pot of hasty pudding, an early American snack of corn meal and molasses. According to a 1973 Crimson article, Pudding members added brandy to the traditional recipe. Relative chaos ensued...
...percent of the total vote. The extent of the Sunni stay-away underscores the danger of Sunni alienation entrenching a social base for the insurgency that has continued to rage since election day, and Jaafari and other Shiite leaders are concerned to draw away support from the more extreme element by seeking common ground with Sunni nationalists. That may require drawing in some of the leaders who boycotted the election, rather than relying only on those Sunnis who ran as candidates...