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...harness. In my mind's eye, I can see Germans running with fixed bayonets to kill me, and I'm having trouble with the harness buckles. To say I'm scared is an understatement. I reach down to my right ankle and pull out my trench knife and stick it in the ground beside me. I think at least a knife is better than no weapon at all. Then I unsnap my harness, untangle myself, stand up and run to the hedgerow where I saw the chute go down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: What They Saw When They Landed | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...ball of fire was a C-47 that had been shot down, and I was silhouetted between this guy's gun and the ship, and I couldn't move. I finally was able to bring my right leg up close enough to where I could get my jump knife out of my boot. I cut the harness loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: What They Saw When They Landed | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...destroying that microscopic dot the exact moral equivalent of driving a knife through the heart of an innocent 6-year-old girl? Some stem-cell enthusiasts think that even antiabortion absolutists can support stem-cell research, since it uses surplus embryos that are doomed anyhow. But that logic would justify Nazi experiments on doomed Jews in the concentration camps. If the microscopic dot is a human being with full human rights, the answer is easy: no stem-cell research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The False Controversy of Stem Cells | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

Hayes said that CPD provides detail officers for the Kong’s bar and dance club on Friday and Saturday nights and the club instituted the policy as a favor to the CPD after an individual took a knife out of a do-rag and cut an officer’s face...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: B.U. Student Objects to Kong Hat Ban | 5/26/2004 | See Source »

Last week a video was posted on an Islamic militant website, and the world learned what had happened to him. After reading a statement about avenging the suffering of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, one of Berg's masked captors took a long knife from his shirt, grabbed a screaming Berg by the hair and cut off his head. CIA officials say there is a "high probability" that the knife was wielded by Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian associate of Osama bin Laden's believed to be the kingpin behind the recent attacks in Iraq. Al-Zarqawi was nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: The Sad Tale Of Nick Berg | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

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