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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Melendez shouted back: "Sounds like they're trying to flank you guys." Unbeknownst to the enemy, U.S. scouts were now working feverishly to come up with "grid references"- coordinates for Mitchell's squad to start firing at. Two more mortar rounds landed in a cloud of dust about 30 meters out to the right. Over the rattle of Iraqi machine gun fire, the scouts announced they had a grid: "six dash four dash dash two dash six dash seven, niner dash two dash three dash three dash five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlie Rock Strikes Back | 3/30/2003 | See Source »

...Ollmann's cartooning style is at once conventional and grotesque. He works in a strict nine-panel grid system of tight little boxes. This makes his work very TV-like, with nearly every panel featuring a close-up of a character. Wide angles, experimental layouts, and non-action panels are generally shunned, making it easy to read for novice comix readers, but rather conservative to sophisticates. With what he does depict, though, Ollmann has an excellent grasp of caricature. Faces are what Ollmann does best. Frequently covered in zits, freckles and pockmarks, his character's faces are detailed in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Losers Win | 3/21/2003 | See Source »

...what if you could smash that grid? What would the Web look like then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shape Of Things To Come | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

...have steady jobs. They don't have to feed a large family. And they don't have to pay rent: They live in a 2-room tenement behind the Federation's field office in the Baghdad's Bayaa district, a middle-class enclave with a grid of dusty but well-maintained roads and neat one- and two-story houses. In this neighborhood, Nadam's little home would cost around $13,000, a sum beyond his wildest dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad Diary: Living on the Edge | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...quarterback’s heroics were made myth when he served as the model for the 1922 football novel First Down Kentucky. To many, Centre College and McMillin examplified the American Dream on the grid-iron by shutting out Harvard...

Author: By Doug G. Mulliken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Revisiting Defeat, Eight Decades Later | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

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