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...increase its presence inside the town that plays host to Iraq's most active resistance network. Taming the city that detonates an average of three homemade bombs a day against coalition forces is a duty of the 1-505 Parachute Infantry Regiment. On Thursday afternoon, Charlie Company's first platoon took the inaugural walk through the middle of town. The battalion commander was just sitting down to meet with a committee of local sheiks at the mayor's office when the shooting started across the street...
...Saul Williams and the even more infamous Larry Flynt, former publisher of Hustler. Concerts will be given by radical hip-hop activists Dead Prez, who have been under the radar ever since dropping their debut album Let’s Get Free, and DJ Kuttin Kandi of the 5th Platoon turntablist crew. 7 p.m. Free. Sanders Theatre...
...Dong Loc also has a shrine to a legendary platoon of vanguard women-all in their teens or early 20s-who died in one bombing in 1968. The 10 girls famously refused to let the hardship of war ruin their looks, washing their hair with paste from bo ket seeds and sharing combs and mirrors. If they were American, there would have been a TV series based on them. On each grave, there is a photo of a smiling girl wearing her battle helmet. Pilgrims have left offerings of plastic combs and compacts. Mr. Truong buys incense sticks and invites...
...items for the sale on the website include a collection of four wood chairs described as “standard, but perfectly fine for sitting” (current value: $15), a third edition Introductory Quantum Mechanics textbook (current value: $70), the Charlie Sheen classic Platoon, described on the website as a “Crazy Nam movie” that “comes up in a bunch of MR classes” (current value: $2) and a $500 gift certificate to The Wrap (current value...
...blue-gray dawn tickles the tops of the ponderosa pines at the Sugar Pine Recreation Area in California's Tahoe National Forest. Campers slumber in lakeside tents; bikers have yet to hit the trails. But all is not quiet on this cool July morning. A platoon of camouflaged figures equipped with rifles, pistols and bulletproof vests creep through manzanita brush with a police dog. Their objective: a marijuana plantation a few hundred yards from a well-traveled tourist area...