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...Brown led off with a double, stole third, and then scored when Kidder blooped a single to right. Kidder was bunted to second and scored when freshman designated player Hayley Brock singled up the middle.The Crimson added two more in the fourth and another in the sixth against Katie Holcomb [8-10], who went the distance.“It is nice to go in with the lead right from the beginning,” Madick said. “It keeps the pressure on the batters instead of on me.—Staff writer Ted Kirby...
...process?If that weren’t enough, Miller directs Philip Seymour Hoffman to a haunting portrayal of the complexities of the gadfly author that should satisfy the entertainment hunger in the audience as well.The sound of stringed instruments that back the opening sequence foretell a disheartening vision of Holcomb, Kansas, closer to the world created by Capote in his “nonfiction novel,” than to the town Capote experienced. The whole movie is strangely meta. Not only are we privy to the story of a writing process, but Miller does his best to capture...
...medical team had flown out of Somalia to Landstuhl with a planeload of injured servicemen, leaving behind a skeleton staff in the 40-bed battlefield hospital. "There was no system to fly critically ill people in the air; we had to create it on the ground," says Colonel John Holcomb, one of only two Army surgeons left in Somalia that day, which was memorialized in the film Black Hawk Down. They performed 34 surgeries in a nonstop 36-hour stint. Haunted by the event, Holcomb and others began pushing for change. Army and Air Force commanders together argued that...
...wartime that included a permanent fleet of airborne intensive-care units (ICUs). Although the plan was expensive, the commanders believed it was the surest way to save lives. "Before that, the traditional way was to keep casualties on the ground until they were stable," says Holcomb. By then, many were dead. Today, the Air Force has about 110 active-duty ccatt teams, many of which have logged tens of thousands of kilometers shuttling between Baghdad and Landstuhl. The aircraft are fitted with the same kind of sophisticated medical equipment that would be found in any high-tech...
...Under Cornum, the hospital has been thoroughly modernized. Today's combat doctors are likely wired to e-mail and cell phones. Holcomb, who now heads the Army's Institute of Surgical Research in Fort Sam Houston, Texas, says he routinely gets an e-mail "from some doctor in a tent outside Fallujah," saying a soldier has been burned in an explosion minutes before, and is being flown by helicopter to the combat hospital in Balad. An hour later, a physician in Balad calls Holcomb, saying he's putting the patient on a plane to Germany. At that point, Holcomb...