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...team that returned all but one member from the team that went 22-5 and a perfect 14-0 in the Ivy League, the Crimson’s fiercest rival has been itself...
...fiercest moment comes when he leans over his friend, ailing and bearing the deadly Ring, and declares, "Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you. But I can carry you." The scene has evoked tears from strong men and yanked Astin into the awards limelight. Yet as much as he reveres Jackson, Astin believes the wrong take is in the film."I know the way I delivered the line was so much more powerful than what the audience sees. That was one of the great acting achievements of my life, and I feel only...
...making process that brought its Foreign Ministers to Naples late last week. Britain, Poland and Spain have been voicing grave misgivings about relinquishing ever-more sovereignty to this non-nation that goes by the name of Europe. The Franco-German power play has sharpened those anxieties even more. The fiercest battle in Europe's constitutional conclave, as in any such convention, is about balancing the weight of small states against the clout of the bigger ones. By acting as they did, France and Germany unwittingly gave Britain, Poland and Spain a foretaste of worse things to come...
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...