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Reaching the barred window near the front door, Bellavia tells two soldiers to perch by the house corner and watch for insurgents trying to leap out the side window. He looks at Staff Sergeant Scott Lawson and says, "You're f______ coming. Give suppressive fire at 45 degrees." Bellavia and Lawson step nervously into the house. From the living room, Bellavia rounds the corner into the hallway. The insurgents are still alive. Their AK-47s fire. Bellavia fires back, killing them both. "Two f_____s down," he says...
...Overrated,” the Harvard student section jeered at BC’s skaters as the latter group milled about in frustration as their chances and perch atop the national rankings slipped away...
...arrived to mediate. "They wouldn't listen to me," says Abdulrazak, a cleric. "There were a few radicals among the protesters, controlling the minds of everyone else." Deputy police commander Vuttichai Hanhaboon, a Buddhist who has spent 10 years in the south, watched the events unfold from his perch on the second-floor balcony of the station. "I looked down on the crowd and thought, 'How many years will it take before these Muslims grow up?' I knew people would die. Why did they not know it and leave, like we asked them to, many times...
...wasn’t for its river perch, Newell Boathouse might resemble a cathedral. From certain angles, you can envision the building’s red and gray slate exterior cradling a congregation; the softly curved architecture of its roof serving as a shelter for a choir...
According to Bovey, the new proposal could turn half of the river from the Longfellow Bridge to the Museum of Science into a “dead zone” for indigenous fish, including the alewife and yellow perch...