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Federal authorities charged Tarek Mehanna, a 27-year-old U.S. citizen from Massachusetts, with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, alleging he planned to carry out a "violent jihad" by killing U.S. politicians, attacking American troops in Iraq and targeting customers at U.S. shopping malls. U.S. attorneys claim that Mehanna sought terrorist training in the Middle East in 2004 and worked with two other men on various plots designed to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" U.S. citizens and soldiers from 2001 to 2008. Mehanna was indicted in January for lying to the FBI during another terrorist investigation...
...something out of The Lord of the Rings, so accustomed are we to watching dusty urban combat on CNN. Surgeons disinfected wounds with Calvados. Unmilked cows wandered bellowing through the ruins of ancient châteaus. Artillery crews learned to fire airbursts into the thick tops of chestnut trees to kill those underneath with splinters...
...majority of the first set until two consecutive service aces by sophomore Anne Carroll Ingersoll pulled the Crimson ahead, 19-18. Cornell called a time-out to regroup, but during the next play, Wu made a diving save that kept the ball alive and led to a kill by Comrie. From there, the momentum completely shifted in Harvard’s favor...
...Columbia is] scrappy,” Comrie said. “We had to use all of our eggs to try and find a way to kill the ball...
...race that's grown over the years: 425,000 people finished marathons in the U.S. last year, according to Running USA, up from just 25,000 in 1976. But it's only in the relatively recent past that the notion of running 26.2 miles became a popular way to kill a few hours. (See the top 10 endurance competitions...