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...move into Iraq until Friday morning, and Thursday was marked by frequent gas-attack alarms, always false but each of them requiring us to rush into our chemical suits. All through Thursday night, bedded down in sleeping bags on the desert floor, we could hear the huge rumble of U.S. artillery pounding Safwan Hill, just over the border. Sometime around 1 a.m., we were awakened and began to pull...
...heels of the last week’s second escape, French Justice Minister Dominique de Perben promised to reform the prisons. Perben will now require more exacting searches along with more frequent shuffling around of dangerous prisons among the many French jails. He even promised to fire any prison director who can’t step up the security in his jail. But while these reforms may address some of the small points of the French prison system, they do not change the overarching clemency that seems to pervade French justice. There is no fear of retribution for jail- breakers...
...they keep earning those frequent-flyer miles, there's no telling how cosmopolitan the NBA will get. Some observers think as many as half the league's players could be foreign-born by the end of the decade, but Commissioner Stern calls that a stretch...
DIED. GEORGE MILLER, 61, stand-up comedian and frequent guest on David Letterman's late-night talk show; of complications from a blood clot in the brain following a long bout with leukemia; in Los Angeles. He and Letterman met on the L.A. comedy-club circuit in the 1970s, and the talk-show host invited him for more guest appearances--56--than any other comic...
...remarks that although “the longest I’ve ever been in that building is probably only 14 hours,” he’s sure that this is shorter than the time spent by some of the computer science thesis writers who frequent the showers. Yau N. Chin ’04 admits to having once stayed in Maxwell Dworkin for three straight days. He says of the super-stocked vending machines, “I think it makes up for the hours of ridicule and shame that computer science concentrators have to walk around...