Word: midnighters
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...execution of Saddam Hussein was a personal vindication. He killed their brothers, uncles, tore apart their families and ran their beloved country into the ground. Even if his finger didn't pull the trigger, they blamed him for everything: every nail-biting visit by an intelligence officer, every midnight execution, every tongue cut out by a sadistic guard, every body in the mass graves at Hillah and Hawija and Musayeb. He projected absolute authority while he was in power and now faced absolute responsibility for every death under his rule. The moment the steel trap door below his feet...
...scheduled four interviews, the first of which (with Insight) will likely air this weekend during The Darker Side’s airtime, between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. on Saturday night and midnight to 4 a.m. on Sunday night...
...prankster pulled a fire alarm a few hours after midnight, rousing Eliot House’s approximately 450 residents and forcing them outside. While Cambridge firefighters scoured the building in search of the non-existent emergency, Eliot residents yawned and shivered in their pajamas...
...term was interrupted by the summer break, complicating the planning process, Petrich said. Elections for the new board begin today and Petrich said that it will benefit from not having its term interrupted. But some houses have seen a dearth of applicants. As of the original application deadline of midnight Friday, no one had declared candidacy from Adams, Cabot, Dunster, or Leverett. As a result, the CEB decided to extend the deadline another 24 hours, according to Drake. All houses except for Leverett now have candidates running, Drake said, adding that he thought the initial lack of candidates indicated poor...
There wasn't much blood on the last casualty of the day in Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar Province. The bandages on the face of the American soldier who arrived at the U.S. field hospital in the area around midnight Dec. 6 were only a little red as medics crowded around him at the operating table. Navy Commander Carlos Brown, the chief surgeon at Camp Ramadi, peered at the bullet wound in the soldier's lower face as his team quickly cut clothes off the man and readied surgical equipment. "Stop," Brown said suddenly. All hands fell away from...