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While the rest of his unit unloaded its gear on the outskirts of the city, Dan went to the Tal Ara base, a rocky military outpost overlooking the city, to make a final check of the target's coordinates. Then Dan rejoined his men and gave them a pep talk. In speeches like these, he addresses his troops as "lions." Based on the accounts of the soldiers after the operation, Dan and his unit moved into the casbah at 2:30, using their preferred mode of transport--their feet. "You have to walk very, very carefully," he says. In groups...
...American as Rin Tin Tin.) It was a moment of witchy aftershocks from the '60s, when the energies of liberation had moved on to less wholesome destinations. Instead of pot, cocaine; instead of Joan Baez, Patty Hearst. Newton plunged into this atmosphere with pictures of deluxe women in bondage gear and lesbian lip locks. They pinned men to the ground, wrestled each other and glared at us from couches in the best hotels, sometimes baring their breasts and (implicitly) their fangs...
...Zachary A. Corker ’04 and Paul H. Hersh ’04—all organizers of last year’s notorious Mather Lather party—started HarvardParties.com this summer in an effort to kick Harvard’s social scene into gear...
...singer-songwriter who plays club gigs in Cincinnati, Ohio, a few nights a week and works for an interactive design firm during the day. "I'd love to make a living at making music," says Geonetta, who notes he spends about $2,000 a year on music gear and drives 20 miles to the nearest Guitar Center rather than visit the neighborhood music shop...
...boost from advances in digital recording technology. Artists like Geonetta who don't have a record-label contract used to have to pay tens of thousands of dollars for studio time plus distribution costs. But now amateurs can produce CDs with their home PCs and cheap recording and mixing gear--there's even a free version of the industry-standard music-editing software called Pro Tools available online. Geonetta plans to lay down tracks for a solo acoustic album in his home studio and burn 1,000 CDs through a copying service. He'll sell the album at his shows...