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...were the two burdens: it had to get to something about the psychology of people who choose to fight, because that's what these guys are - volunteers - and something about the nature of war being a war of bombs as opposed to armies massing on two sides of a hill and fighting over terrain, which is what those other wars were about. (See pictures of Iraq's revival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oscar Week: Hurt Locker Writer Mark Boal | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

...graduate of Colgate University in upstate New York and Georgetown Law. He's worked for the parliamentarian's office since 1977, and starting four years after that, he and former parliamentarian Bob Dove have effectively rotated what must be one of the most thankless jobs on Capitol Hill. They kept switching off because various congressional leaders fired one or the other in frustration. Dove served under Republicans from 1981-87, when he was fired by Robert Byrd after Dems took control. Frumin ran things until 1995, when Dove was reinstated. He only lasted until 2001, when he was fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health Reform's Reconciliation Ref | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...Hill, a Washington tabloid, announced the passage of the bill with the headline, “Brown helps Reid Win on Jobs Bill...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

Junior Brian Hill and sophomore Darcy Wilson also had standout efforts, taking fourth place in the 800- and 1000-meter events, respectively, to add four points apiece to the team total...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Takes Home Fourth at Heps | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...Inexplicably, in the minutes after Saturday's quake, Chilean officials told coastal communities like Constitución that there was little if any danger of tsunamis. Chilean television networks later aired video of tall, destructive waves pushing houses, cars and boats through fishing villages. "We ran desperately up the hill and watched how the sea washed everything away," a woman in the village of Duao told a Chilean-TV reporter. The wave that hit the village of Talcahuano rose more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Prepared for the Quake but Not the Tsunami | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

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