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...asthma like they told you, that they don't have a juvenile criminal history," Kagawa says. "That recruiter is going to bend the rules and get the lies told and process the fraudulent paperwork." And if the recruiter refuses? The commander, says Kagawa, is "going to tell you point-blank that 'we have a loyalty issue here, and if I give you a "no" for loyalty on your annual report, your career is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Army Recruiters Killing Themselves? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Gibbons’ goal would be Harvard’s only score of the half, as Schneider denied the offense time after time. On one play, after the Minuteman defense failed to clear the ball, freshman attacker Kevin Vaughn found junior attacker Jesse Fehr streaking towards the net. From point-blank range, Fehr fired a shot at the lower right corner of the goal, but Schneider made a diving save to knock it away. “[Schneider] played great,” senior co-captain Max Gottschall said. “He made some really good saves and gave...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goalie Stymies Crimson Attack | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...bizarre delay of game infraction when the Big Red’s Catherine White attempted to pick up the puck during a faceoff—Harvard found itself on a 5-on-3 power play.The Crimson pounded the net against an overmatched Cornell penalty kill, and after Mazzotta repelled point-blank shots by Vaillancourt and tri-captain Jenny Brine, Ryabkina slammed a rebound into the net to notch her second goal of the game and ninth on the season.“We just wanted to score,” Ryabkina said. “I was just banging...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Completes Sweep of Big Red | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

Carroll took charge for the remainder of the period, getting his right pad on an attempt from point-blank range...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Ties Saints, Stays Winless on Road | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...panorama of malefactors includes a 13-year-old boy who is shot point-blank while wearing a bulletproof vest during an initiation rite that is like a Mafia bar mitzvah ("Now you are a man"); a middle-management toughie who, like Tony Soprano, is in the waste-disposal business (the Camorra holds a monopoly in this industry); and two punks who quote the Pacino Scarface and think they've hit the jackpot when they stumble on a weapons stash. ("Let's rack up corpses," one says. "No use feeling depressed.") Above these scarred, drugged-out creatures are their bosses, wealthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gomorrah: Scarface for Real | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

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