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...those shoe-box-shaped structures are enemy barracks and that dark broken line is a convoy of armored vehicles closing in on Baghdad from the south. Now move even closer: an empty airport runway, a damaged tank and there, along the bottom, where the general is tapping his pointer--a human body? The orbiting camera has reached its limits, but the mind continues to zoom in until it's looking the dead man in the eye. The big picture no longer matters, just this small one--singular, piercing...
Tubridy nailed a jumper and grabbed two tough rebounds, the second of which led to an Ides three that brought the score to 67-58 with just over four minutes left. The captain demonstrated further poise under pressure, hitting another three-pointer at 3:29, cutting the Wildcats’ lead to eight at 69-61 and capping an Harvard...
...force. But maximum force also greatly increases the risks of civilian casualties, particularly since Saddam has deployed so many of his key military resources in civilian population centers. Most of the ordinance dropped by U.S. planes these days is guided with precision to its targets by satellite or laser-pointer, but precision bombing require precision intelligence - the U.S. bomb that destroyed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1998 was guided by satellite with deadly accuracy; the problem lay in the intelligence that had wrongly identified the building. And the inability of U.S. and British intelligence tips to guide UN weapons...
...wonder what Thompson would have said last Saturday. What would he have said to see Merchant score 14 of Harvard’s first 17 points and finish with a career-high 28—at halftime? What would he have said to watch Merchant hit off-balance three-pointer after off-balance three-pointer in the second half, desperately keeping his team in the game against Brown? What would he have said to see him finish the game with a school-record 45 points...
...Bulldogs made one last valiant charge, however, as they scraped within one with just 2:39 left. After a pair of Crimson buckets, Smith hit her clutch three-pointer to bring Yale within...