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...former first lady recounted her own experiences on the day of the attack, telling the audience how she heard the news on her way to a education hearing in Washington. She and Sen. Charles E. Schumer ’71 (D-N.Y.) immediately flew back to New York City to survey the damage...
...after being postponed for 48 hours because of bad weather. At Bagram, Colonel Frank Wiercinski told his men that this would be a "defining moment" in their lives. Echoing the motto of the 10th Mountain Division, he said, "This is your climb to glory." The helicopters took off and flew south. The division, heading for battle position Eve, attacked the villages of Sarkhankhel, Marzak and Babakul, taking al-Qaeda by surprise. "The bad guys were drinking tea when we arrived," says Hagenbeck. "Our snipers," says one soldier, "whacked a whole lot of people...
...standoff between President Didier Ratsiraka and opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana threatened to split the island, as the opposition declared a parallel administration in Antananarivo and government supporters proposed relocating the capital to Toamasina (Tamatave) in the President's heartland. With army support also divided, a second O.A.U. delegation flew in to mediate the crisis triggered by disputed presidential elections in December. The public appeared to ignore a government declaration of martial law two weeks...
...peaceful Tuesday morning calm in Adams House C-entry was shattered by the screams of Lesley W. Ma ’03 when a cunning yet stupid avian intruder flew down a chimney into the triple she shares with Courtenay L. Kessler ’03 and Emma F.O. Wendt ’03. “THERE IS A BIRD IN MY ROOM!!!!! i tried to open the storm windows to let it out — failed... WHAT DO WE DO?????” wrote Ma in a desperate 8:48 a.m. message to the Adams Schmooze...
Instead, Schill finds himself the focus of controversy. After a member of his party told a television interviewer that he had seen Schill use cocaine at his election victory celebration, the prosecutor's office opened a criminal investigation. Calling the charges "a perfidiously launched dirty campaign," Schill flew to Munich to take a drug test, which proved negative. But other problems are harder to shrug off. Mario Mettbach, a member of Schill's party who was appointed public- works minister, made the mistake of hiring his girlfriend as his personal assistant at a salary of $3,500 a month. When...