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...knew how talented she was,” Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “We shouldn’t have let her get 30 points. We should have put a lid on that a little sooner, I guess…not that you can. That’s a player who can get her shot when she wants...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rutgers Barely Powers Past Women’s Hoops | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

...whipped open a drawer and pulled out one of those little spring hand exercisers. And then he reached into the same drawer with his other hand and pointed to a small paper box the size of a jewelry box. With one hand pumping, smiling broadly, he lifted the lid. The music started, filling the vast room. It was Sousa, loud and brassy and in your face: Stars and Stripes Forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donald Rumsfeld: Secretary Of War Donald Rumsfeld | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...raids on houses of suspected insurgents and former members of Saddam's regime in Adhamiya. In July, Colgan led the platoon on midnight searches of a Muslim cemetery next to the Abu Hanifa mosque, where insurgents were believed to be storing weapons. Colgan instructed the soldiers to bang the lid of each crypt; if it sounded hollow, the troops hoisted the 250-lb. granite slab and looked inside. On its second graveyard hunt, on July 4, the platoon netted a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher and 31 RPGs. A later search turned up a stash of the explosive C4. Afterward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait Of A Platoon | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...knew how talented she was,” Delaney-Smith said. “We shouldn’t have let her get 30 points. We should have put a lid on that a little sooner, I guess…not that you can. That’s a player who can get her shot when she wants...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops' Zone Defense Breaks Down Against Pondexter | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...most frightening plans involve his desire to employ unconventional weapons. His most prized possession, he says, is a cache of 82mm mortar rounds. Mohammed displays one of the rounds and proclaims, "This is a chemical mortar." Encased in a green storage tube with a flip-lock lid, the weapon has liquid sloshing inside a bulbous head reeking with a putrid odor that burns the nostrils. The Russian markings on the weapon identify it as a TD-42 liquid, high-explosive mortar. It's impossible to know what is really in the device or if the boasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Behind Enemy Lines | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

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