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Manhattan, Kans. "THE LITTLE APPLE" The home of Kansas State University throws down the gauntlet to N.Y.C...
...Global Fund. An Administration spokesman said he considered it "unlikely" that other donors will come up with the $2 billion, and points out that the law doesn't provide "an automatic trigger" for a full billion to the Fund even if they do. But having thrown down the gauntlet, Bush is now in the ring. Says Sharonann Lynch of the advocacy group HealthGAP: "If other heads of state challenge Bush back, what can he do but pay in his billion?" As much as they welcome the competitive dynamic between the U.S. and other rich donors, experts don't want...
...basketball captain Brady Merchant refused to go gentle into that good night. Long after the optimism stirred by the Crimson’s 7-2 start to the season was exposed as false hope, long after Harvard’s premature run through the Penn-Princeton gauntlet doomed the team to another year of mediocrity, long after the Pat Harvey affair signed the death note, Merchant was still raging, raging against the dying of the light...
...arriving to release the armored units for other missions. Brigadier General Benjamin Freakley, assistant division commander of the 101st, briefed the leaders of the companies that would be encircling Najaf. Everyone expected the remaining fedayeen to attempt a break toward Baghdad even if it meant running the 101st's gauntlet. But if the fedayeen stayed and conscripted the locals at gunpoint again, Freakley faced a moral conundrum: "Imagine someone walking into your home and saying either you fight or we will kill your wife and daughters. They are doing what any man would do to protect his family...
...pressure on the 200-mile supply line into Iraq from Kuwait that has been subject to constant Iraqi harassment. And getting "there" in the lumbering HC-130, a big, slow target for surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), means flying about 300 feet above the desert and passing through a gauntlet of Iraqi radar systems. Because of all the surface-to-air-missile beacons in the area, alarms go off in the cabin. And one pesky mobile SAM battery has been roaming around and targeting incoming planes for weeks--hence the southern approach, coming in above a stretch of remote desert...