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...HUPD officers were sent to investigate a report of an unconscious person on the steps of the Owl, a final club located at 30 Holyoke St. Officers and Cambridge Fire Rescue personnel transported the individual to a medical facility...
...tense for anybody in Iraq. But if you're a special-forces person, you're more psychologically prepared than [if] one day you're cleaning teeth, or working in a car garage, or selling stuff at the Wal-Mart, and a week later you're riding in a personnel vehicle down a street in Baghdad waiting for a bomb to go off and take your life away. Now, that's like my problems--an explanation is not a justification. There is no justification for that...
Initially, it wasn't clear whether Dumars and Brown would get along. Brown had been both coach and personnel director in Philadelphia, but in Detroit he was only the coach. "It was very difficult for him to give up that control," says Brown's brother Herb, 67, a Pistons assistant. At the same time, Dumars wasn't about to cede authority, because he had built the team in his own image as a player--tough and selfless. When he became GM in 2000, Dumars brought a team philosophy to Detroit, but he didn't have much of a team...
...strongman" type ruler, rather than a Jeffersonian democrat. Himself a former Baathist intelligence operative, he insisted for much of his three decades in exile that the only way to change Iraq was by lopping off the head of the regime but maintaining much of its administrative bureaucracy and security personnel. To that end, he worked - for some time as a CIA asset - on plans to foment a coup among Baathist generals. Allawi's history, and his pronouncements on martial law and cracking down on the insurgency suggests he may remain inclined towards the "strongman" route, and if he succeeds...
Beyond the personnel issues, take a look at the schedules from around the Ivy League. Penn had two non-conference gimmies in San Diego and Bucknell, but continues its hotly contested rivalry with Villanova at Franklin Field...