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...MUCH FORCE? American soldiers stormed Saddam Hospital in Nasiriyah with overwhelming power, but according to the BBC, the Pentagon knew it was needless. The BBC says U.S. forces had been tipped off by Nasiriyah resident Hassan Hamoud Awad that no Iraqi soldiers were in the hospital. Hassan told TIME the same story: that just minutes before the rescue, a U.S. translator approached him and asked if fedayeen (irregular Iraqi forces) were stationed at the hospital. Hassan said they were not. Iraqi forces had been stationed there but had fled by the time U.S. troops arrived. The Pentagon does not deny...
...Needless to say, the four-door junker I got had no accessories—it didn’t even have a clock. I amused myself by driving to Philadelphia at 85 miles an hour. Covered the games, met some friends, then headed to Princeton for a game the next day. Upon returning to Boston, I headed to EZ to return the vehicle...
...miles. Looking back across the river draws the eye toward downtown Boston, which seems in completely the wrong place due to the river’s nearly 180 degree curve. In the other direction is the Harvard stadium, with the hills of Belmont situated behind it. The view, perhaps needless to say, is my favorite part of the building, but a number of other features of the building have proven surprisingly pleasing as well...
...Death. When the Day of Silence came to college campuses in 1996, it sought to literalize the fatal silence surrounding the victims of hate crimes. In another decontextualization of a once-potent political action, the BGLTSA’s event re-defined silence as the silence of the closet. Needless to say, the silence of the closet is not the silence of the grave. To be, as one sign put it, “Silenced by Heteronormativity” is a condition easily remedied by coming out and staying out. To compare this to the absolute silence of the victims...
...Needless to say, the Black and White is itching for another chance to race its Ivy rivals...