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...British SAS team, which had one commando killed during the firefight, according to NATO officials in Kabul, flew off in a helicopter with Farrell but left Munadi's body behind. The translator's grieving relatives made the dangerous journey from Kabul to Kunduz to pick up the body. Munadi had returned briefly to Kabul during a break from graduate school in Germany and was working part-time for the Times, accompanying journalists on their increasingly dangerous forays out of the capital. (Read about roadside bombs in Afghanistan...
...never stopped trying to go to goal, and that’s why we played so well defensively, because we tried to lock them in on our end.”As New Hampshire pushed to even the tally before the half, a final-minute 30-yard try flew over the crossbar. Senior goalie Lauren Mann grabbed a deflected ball on the next possession and held on until the clock ran out.The Crimson’s dominating play continued through the second stanza, especially in the opening minutes, when blasts by Wideroff and sophomore Melanie Baskind nearly extended the Harvard...
...What's the status of Virgin Galactic, your new space-flight initiative in New Mexico? Has the recession derailed those plans at all? Virgin Galactic is on schedule. The mother ship flew successfully at Oshkosh, Wis., and I actually flew successfully in it. The first spaceship will be unveiled in the Mojave Desert in December...
Tropical Storm Danny was bearing down on New England as Boston got ready to lay her favorite son to rest; so President Obama cut his vacation short and flew in Friday night, so that nothing could keep him from Saturday morning's mass for Senator Edward Kennedy. In Washington, busloads of Senators lined up at dawn at the Capitol to proceed to Andrews Air Force base and then fly north. Presidents Clinton, Carter and Bush 43, the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen were all expected as well; security was everywhere, the airspace over...
Last summer, as I flew toward Denver for the Democratic Convention on a small jet with Ted Kennedy, his family and a few friends, I thought of another convention 28 years before. It was the one Kennedy addressed in New York City after losing the Democratic nomination for President to Jimmy Carter. The speech Kennedy hoped to deliver in Denver would echo the earlier one, although a slight change in the closing words would make for a profound shift in mood. The robust Kennedy of 1980, announcing "The dream shall never die," was a young lion in winter, defiant...