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...units of the team: a blocked punt gave the Leopards possession on the Crimson one-yard line in the first quarter, while senior cornerback Steven Williams’s interception return for a touchdown in the fourth boosted the offense’s scoring stats. GIVE ’EM HULL Sophomore punter Thomas Hull had his second consecutive big day punting the ball, averaging 45.6 yards on five punts, including two of over 50 yards. Despite that, several special teams miscues hampered the Harvard effort, the first of which was a blocked punt after the Crimson?...
...through the dust along the river bank toward their base, the soldiers pass through several Iraqi police checkpoints and then through one more where three young men had earlier stood wearing civilian clothes and carrying Kalashnikovs - the newest local squad of concerned citizens. "Wave and smile if you see 'em, guys," Vansandt tells his men. "They're on our side...
...radicals have contributed to diminishing violence, they point to the numbers and say the civilian patrols are having an effect. Soldiers say 57 improvised explosive devises, or IEDs, exploded or were discovered in May. In August, however, only six went off or were found. "It's pretty much shut 'em down," says Maj. Craig Whiteside, the executive officer for the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Batallion...
...what Mark Steyn wrote on National Review Online: "Bad things happen to good people, and they cause financial problems and tough choices. But, if this is the face of the 'needy' in America, then no one is not needy." Nameless commenters to conservative blogs were even harsher. "Let 'em twist in the wind and be eaten by ravens," wrote one one on Redstate.com, who was quoted in the Baltimore Sun. "Then maybe the bunch of socialist patsies will think twice...
...ideology, not uniformed but civilian guerrillas. And in a War on Terror there's no sure way to declare victory. But just because our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are less fighting machines than sitting ducks, that doesn't mean that moviegoers should be deprived of go-get-'em war epics - or, in the case of The Kingdom, an old-fashioned , new-fangled action movie with the hint of a political statement...