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...February, a website based in Pakistan put up a photo montage depicting Pantano's severed head. The FBI and local police were called in, and Pantano turned his pleasant modern house into a small armed camp. Guns appeared from various bags and trunks. A bag of flak jackets lay by the couch, and Pantano took to wearing a sidearm under his Thomas Pink shirt. It was as close to the front lines as Lieut. Pantano is likely to get in the foreseeable future. This summer Easy Company will head back to Iraq. Pantano will probably remain at home, fighting...
...Pittsburgh; Biochemistry). Instead of reaching enlightenment in a stately wood-paneled chamber, I found my way to Cabot Library (“They never showed THIS in the brochures!” my freshman roommate exclaimed indignantly). And far from knowing instinctively where my niche at this large school lay, I treaded uncertainly in a pool of opportunity, clutching colorful flyers from the activities fair like a lingering lifeline to the storybook world of Harvard...
...they had known what a mess they were getting into. Even if a few journalists were still brave enough to take the risk and seek out confidential sources, far fewer government officials would give information if they suspected that only the personal heroism of the reporter lay between themselves and retaliation. We encourage the reader to imagine what America would have been like for the past two hundred years if journalists had neither sought nor received information that incriminated the source...
Thanks to the Phelps family, this small, gossipy city can perhaps lay claim to being the homophobia capital of the U.S. Since 1991, the Rev. Fred Phelps, 75, has led his family in campaigns against everyone from "sodomites" and "fag enablers" to victims of 9/11. More recently the Phelpses initiated a referendum on the March 1 ballot that would prohibit laws protecting gay rights. The family is also supporting one of Fred's 53 grandchildren, Jael Phelps, 20, a prim nursing student who once picketed Matthew Shepard's funeral, in her run against city councilwoman Tiffany Muller...
...onus lay squarely on the forward’s shoulders when he returned to the lineup the following evening against the Saints—not as a member of one of the higher lines on which he had previously skated, but on the Crimson’s gritty, hard-nosed, physical fourth line...