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...Bush stated long ago, the mission of our armed forces was to free Kuwait, not to occupy Iraq. Clearly, we could have marched into Baghdad during the height of the ground war, but Bush, as he promised, did not give these orders...
...Among the guys here, the average height and weight has dropped about three inches and 20 pounds, but most of it's in shoulder girth," says Valerie C. Nellen...
...will get a chance to answer some of these questions -- and more -- over the next two to eight years as a result of last week's NASA launch of the Gamma Ray Observatory on board the space shuttle Atlantis. The 17.5-ton GRO will circle the earth at a height of 450 km (280 miles), mapping the heavens as it peers to the very edges of the universe. "Gamma-ray scientists are starved for information," says Richard Lingenfelter, an astronomer at the University of California at San Diego. Data gathered on such violent but poetic-sounding celestial bodies as neutron...
Mower is, without question, the height of convenience. Mowerites have the luxury of waking up at noon and being early for those stimulating Ec 10 lectures. Cabot Library (read pre-med study hall) is a great place to find the answers to that impossible Chem 10 problem set. Mower is next to Phillips Brooks House, which allows us to contribute several hours each day to furthering the cause of humanity...
...height of the fighting for Basra, Western intelligence officials say, some 5,000 defectors from the regular army, angered that their leaders had brought them such inglorious defeat, faced 6,000 loyalists from the Republican Guard. The rabble-rousers also included a large number of Shi'ite fundamentalists, some of whom paraded portraits of Mohammed Bakr Hakim, Iraq's leading Shi'ite cleric. Hakim lives in exile in Iran and aims to install a Tehran-like revolutionary government in Baghdad; Iran's President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani last week called on Saddam's regime to "surrender to the will...