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...American forces first pushed into Baghdad, for example, they boasted of killing as many as 3,000 enemy fighters. The release of that number may have been an effort to rattle the Iraqis. But the estimate was little more than what the military calls a WAG, a wild-assed guess. The Iraqi side can't do much better. No longer does an authority exist to track casualties. Even if one did, the task would be Herculean. In the Muslim world, the deceased are buried as quickly as possible, and war deaths can thus go unrecorded. This is a war that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Counting The Casualties: How Many Iraqis Have Died? | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...doesn’t want to pose a guess...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Area Bookstores Feel Crunch | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

...guess I was a little more naïve when I was younger just because I didn’t know how hard it really is to win a championship and how much of a whole team effort it was,” Bajin said. “It’s really easy to be individual when you first come into college because tennis is such an individual sport and you’re not used to being on a team...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ivy League Showdown | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

...It’s part of the job,” he says nonchalantly, shrugging off a year’s worth of New Musical Express cover stories and Spin raves. “I guess you can never see anything that’s in the near future...

Author: By Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Post-Punk’ Band Headlines Tour | 4/18/2003 | See Source »

...think that they scored most of their goals in man-up situations,” Gardner said. “I guess our defense just got frustrated or confused...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Home Sweet Home: Women's Water Polo Topples Dartmouth | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

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