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...took the Red Army just ten days to surround Berlin, Marshal Georgi Zhukov encircling it from the north and Marshal Ivan Konev from the south. When the ring was complete on April 25, the Soviets arrayed a fearful multitude of weapons--6,000 tanks, 42,000 guns--and began bombarding the city. In the central area around the Chancellery and the bunker, around the Reichstag and the opera and the university, the shells landed at the rate of one every five seconds. The barrage went on all day and then all the next...
...interesting sight," he joked. And the World Champion Boston Red Sox weren't the only athletes on the Hill last week. Virginia Reps. Bob Goodlatte (R), Virgil Goode (R) and Jim Moran (D) were there as Shaquille O'Neal was sworn in as an honorary deputy U.S. marshal as part of his work with the Safe Surfin' Foundation, a group that works on protecting kids from meeting potential sexual predators online. Next week could also be star-studded: As part of a hearing on steroids, the House Government Reform Committee has invited baseball players Jose Canseco, Jason Giambi, Mark McGwire...
According to organizer and class marshal Michael H. Kalin ’05, the pool party was “something we always talked about for four years, [as a way] to utilize the resources on campus...
Sheria D. Smith ’05, also a class marshal, said the Senior Splash and other class-sponsored events serve as “a way to reconnect with people you had previously lost track of in a more fun environment...
...tend to be younger soldiers with troubled records who make a break for it because of personal or financial woes rather than moral or political objections. "Often, we have found, soldiers cannot find an honorable way out and just leave their units," says Lieut. Colonel Susan Danielsen, the provost marshal at Fort Bragg Army base. Whatever the reason, discontent in the ranks seems to be starting to show, especially among National Guard and Reserve soldiers, some of whom probably never bargained for the full-time, life-threatening commitment that their service, in many cases, has become. Staff members...