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...last time I met Saif Abdallah, in the winter of 2006, he was proud to have helped kill dozens, possibly hundreds of American soldiers. Then 28, he was a geeky electronics engineer who made trigger devices for roadside bombs known as IEDs - the No. 1 cause of U.S. troop casualties. I remember the relish he took in listing his clients, most of them Iraqi Sunni insurgent groups, whom he saw as fellow patriots trying to drive out the American occupier. He had also devised triggers for al-Qaeda. "They pay me," he said then with a shrug. "Anybody who wants...
...Although Harvard had four power-play opportunities, it was up against a solid Cornell special teams unit, which has killed 21 of 22 penalties against for a .955 penalty kill percentage and failed to convert on any of its chances. The Big Red is the first team to deny Harvard a power-play goal in the Crimson’s last 14 games...
...Lynah Rink. The Big Red took the 2-1 victory, snapping Harvard’s three-game winning streak and securing victory over the rival Crimson at home for the first time in four years. Cornell showed Harvard that putting too much pressure on one’s penalty kill and failing to create scoring chances leaves little margin for error. Though back-and-forth hockey was the norm for the majority of game, Cornell (3-0-2, 3-0-2 ECAC) capitalized on four Crimson penalties in the second period to notch a power-play goal and keep Harvard?...
...from memory as the actors speak it. But she chose her leads wisely: the pretty Stewart is a questioning, questing presence; the Brit Pattinson, a sensitive-stud dreamboat. And Hardwicke is faithful to the book's chaste eroticism. The couple must put off having sex because, well, it could kill Bella. (AIDS metaphors are unavoidable here.) Yet waiting has its own delicious tension...
...size of a Nimitz-class U.S. carrier, which is manned by 3,200 sailors, not including the 2,500 responsible for flying and maintaining its aircraft.) "So once they have access," Mullen added, "they seem to be able to get on and take over." The pirates generally don't kill or take the cargo; they just want cash...