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Just ask the boys at the Shkin firebase. On Sept. 29, two platoons from the 1st Battalion, 87th Regiment, 10th Mountain Division found themselves locked in a 12-hour battle against a few dozen al-Qaeda and Taliban guerrillas. It was the fiercest combat U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have seen in more than 18 months and an extreme test of valor under fire. An American was killed by a sniper; quick thinking by U.S. soldiers averted many more deaths. "Most of us feel this strange mixture of sorrow and exhilaration," says Major Paul Wille. "It was the perfect fight...
...highway to Jaffna is being rebuilt by the Asian Development Bank. Although thousands of Tamils who had to leave their homes during the civil war still languish in refugee camps, conditions in the north are slowly improving. In Killinochchi, an LTTE-controlled town that saw some of the fiercest fighting, a landscape of burned-out, bullet-scarred buildings is intermittently relieved by a brand-new office or restaurant. The LTTE has even opened its own caf? in town, where its guerrillas, retrained as waiters, now wield oversize plates of pungent curry instead of guns...
Cliche might have it that the fiercest the Harvard-Yale rivalry gets is a heated game of Trivial Pursuit, although in reality it’s probably closer to a Beirut ineptitude contest punctuated by occasional thumb wars. But there is a world of legitimate college football rivalries out there—theoretically, right across the Charles—and FM made the 45-minute schlep to Boston College to investigate this strange staple of campus life everywhere but here...
AFTER ALL THIS, DO YOU STILL HAVE ANY FRIENDS ON WALL STREET? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Particularly with the recent cases against mutual funds, some of my fiercest critics are saying...
Fatefully, the Crimson will have a chance to improve that mark against one of its fiercest rivals...