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...When they finally meet the enemy long-range bombs have already burned them to various grotesque crisps. Tony (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his buddy, Troy (a wonderfully cool, emotionally hidden Peter Sarsgaard), who are snipers, come close to actually doing something-killing a pair of Iraqi officers holed up in an airfield control tower-but at the last moment one of their own senior officer swans in and countermands the orders. In short, Swofford and his unit have nothing to show for the half year they spend in the eye of Desert Storm...
...sophomore Sarah Bourne said. “We had hoped to do better, and, while there were some very good individual performances, others of us did not have very good races.” “We were obviously pretty frustrated with the result,” junior Peter Mullen said. “Three guys who have been in our top five throughout the season were hurt and didn’t run. The guys who raced also did not run close to what they were expecting.” Scherf paced the women for the second year...
...loss to Holy Cross (8-7-0, 2-4-0 Patriot) because of a red card he was given in a loss to Dartmouth this past weekend. Three games ago, freshman Michael Giammanco returned from a broken clavicle, and ever since, he and fellow classmates Peter Glenmullen and Marcel Perl have been in the back line along with captain Will Craig. “Giammanco would have been playing from the get-go if he had not had a broken clavicle,” Harvard coach John Kerr said. Against Holy Cross, the young tandem was joined by sophomore goalie...
...Enter Peter Okaalet, 52, a physician who decided in the late 1980s to go to seminary in an attempt to bridge the gap. From his base in Nairobi, where he serves as Africa director for a Christian medical-assistance group called MAP International, Okaalet has spent the past 12 years working with ministers--and by extension their congregations--to refine and in some cases redefine their response to AIDS. To that end he has run countless seminars in Kenya and elsewhere and helped establish master's degree programs in pastoral care and HIV/AIDS at 14 seminaries and Bible colleges...
...Yard towards Memorial Hall, he said the numbers swelled to approximately 300 people. The protesters reached Sanders Theatre at approximately 5 p.m., when University President Lawrence H. Summers was addressing a crowd of parents visiting for freshman parents’ weekend. Once at the south entrance of Sanders Theatre, Peter Rider—treasurer and director of higher education for SEIU Local 615—shouted to the crowd. “This fight is not won at the negotiating table, but by what we are doing out here right now,” Rider said. Protesters stood outside...