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...Most of Chek Lap Kok's vantage points are at ground level, and it is difficult to get a close view of the aircraft because of the high-security double fencing that surrounds the airport. There is also heat haze to contend with...
...approximately 140,000 U.S. troops now in Iraq look set to stay awhile. One of the commanders of their British counterparts told a London newspaper last weekend that they'd likely be in Iraq at least four years. American GIs now find themselves peering through a 110-degree haze at an enemy who is essentially made invisible by the language and cultural barriers separating the troops from the local population. And the survival instinct requires that the soldier treat every crowd as a potentially deadly threat. Thus, for example, the killing of two Iraqis in Baghdad during a protest...
...Your room is filled with so much beautiful laughter,” roommate #3 (Elizabeth H. Hagan ’02), said when she stayed with me for a few days this term. She had fallen back into my life when I was mired in a thesis-induced haze, and she referred to the little cackles that drifted through the cracks of my bedroom wall when Toby, Mike and I buckled over the sink brushing our teeth (a sometimes ritual). That laughter was the only thing that pushed me through my senior thesis, my breakups and the bleary days that...
...DIED. NOEL REDDING, 57, bass guitarist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience from 1966 to 1969, of natural causes; in Clonakilty, Ireland. Redding, along with drummer Mitch Mitchell, accompanied Jimi Hendrix on some of the most radical songs of the 1960s, including Purple Haze and Foxey Lady. In 1974, Redding signed away future royalties for a one-off payment, losing out as Hendrix records continued to sell well over the next quarter-century. At the time of his death, Redding's lawyers were working on an action against the company that oversees the Hendrix estate to recover $5 million in lost...
Through the haze of smoke grenades, Sergeants Brown and Jarchow saw a father and daughter approach the fallen RPG gunner. Jarchow shot at the gunner again. In Sergeant Brown's words, "The girl helps him up, and they're walking away and I popped him again, and he's down. He moves again, and I empty my magazine into...