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...this tiny hamlet tucked among orchards and snowcapped ridges north of Kandahar. In what appeared to be a perfect sneak attack, U.S. special-operations soldiers on Jan. 24 stormed Sharzam High School in Uruzgan. That same night, another unit conducted a similar commando raid at a military compound a mile away. In all, the soldiers killed 21 Afghans, who the U.S. claimed were Taliban, captured an additional 27 and destroyed troves of weapons and ammunition. All that, and only one U.S. soldier was hurt--and just barely. It was the most dramatic ground operation the U.S. has acknowledged since...
...mile, Harvard was led by junior Alasdair McLean-Foreman, who was coming off his standout performance at Notre Dame’s Meyo Invitational the week before. After posting a time just one second slower than the NCAA provisional qualifying cutoff at the Notre Dame meet, McLean-Foreman turned in a slightly disappointing performance of 4:12.39, and was given some competition by Yale runner Robert Dwyer’s late surge...
...first 800 was at about 1:57, which is a little too fast,” McLean-Foreman said. “I lost focus at about 1,000 meters. I probably need to run the first half-mile in about two or two-plus minutes...
...cadre of terrorists. It's 6:30 p.m. in the PC caf?, part of a nondescript strip mall in the Orange County, Calif. suburb of Garden Grove, and there are about twenty customers inside playing the online game Counterstrike against kids in the other twenty cybercafes within a four-mile radius. In the game, users play either terrorists or counterterrorists locked in a violent faceoff. Although Peake dislikes the kids on the terrorist side who give themselves handles like Osama's Mama ("That's not very respectful," he says, blowing them away), he loves the buzz he gets from...
University of Michigan senior Troy M. Wallace describes the Naked Mile thusly in an e-mail: “As far as I know, Naked Mile participants are all frat guys hoping to see attractive, naked women. Also, Naked Mile spectators are all geeks hoping to see attractive, naked women. What happens, of course, is that the geeks see a bunch of naked frat guys. The frat guys only see other naked frat guys, while geeks stare at them in disappointment. Both groups are embarrassed. There seem to be quite a number of people who really want to see attractive...