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Harvard coach Mark Mazzoleni boiled over. He leaned over the edge of the bench and began pounding the dasher, near the advertisement for Schenectady’s web site. During his impromptu act on the board-bongos, the cap on his ballpoint pen flew onto the ice—a casualty of his frustration...
...even later this week, I won't be able to do it," Rao says. Bureaucratic delays have stalled the construction of a modern international terminal in Bangalore, and the few overseas flights that leave from the city's inadequate airport are fully booked for months. Indeed, Rao once flew all the way to London so that he could catch a flight to America. The hardest part, he says, is explaining his travel travails to foreign clients: "They don't really understand what life is like for us here...
...they're not, they're lying. People are cringing." Some soldiers have turned to God. Whiteside reads Scripture and recites the Lord's Prayer before leaving the gates. On the day of Colgan's death, Kamont, a lapsed Baptist who admits to once having been a heavy drinker, flew back to Germany on home leave and told his wife he wants their 2-year-old daughter to grow up in a religious household. "When something like this happens," he says, "you need to have someone to pray...
With Colgan at the helm, the platoon's morale soared. Even in 130° heat, the Tomb Raiders sometimes ran patrols five times a day on four hours' sleep. No one minded. "The first five months just flew by," says Whiteside. Colgan's disarming style seemed to soften the hearts of the people of Adhamiya. "There are very few people who can break into your house, arrest your husband and then by the time he leaves, have everyone waving and smiling. It takes a special person," says Whiteside. "We all thought, This cat is invincible...
...like to hear criticism of the soldiers. "I feel like they're attacking me personally," she says. Hardest of all is watching soldier-homecoming scenes. "It makes me cry," she says, smiling. "I turn it off. It doesn't seem fair." As Christmas approached, she and her sons flew to Tallahassee, Fla., to be with her parents. Sitting next to her on the first leg of the flight, across the Atlantic, was her friend Rochelle, pulling guard duty. --By Amanda Ripley/Giessen