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With injuries spreading across the diamond like a bad rash, he played three infield positions—second, shortstop and third base—and played all of them well. Besides senior Trey Hendricks, he was the team’s most consistent hitter...
This weekend, Katie E. Stein ’05 headed toward a rash of wild Mather room parties. But on the pathway between Leverett and Mather, she encountered all five of her ex-boyfriends and this girl she used make out with during her sophomore spring bi-curious stage. All were drunk. Two days later, Stein returned to her Kirkland suite, having achieved the closure she’d been looking for with John, Ben, Adam, Josiah, John and Susan...
...coalition troops and upward of 1,000 Iraqis killed in clashes in the Sunni Triangle and the Shiite neighborhoods of the capital and some of the southern cities. Wednesday's terror attack in Basra that killed 68 Iraqis underscored the sense of security unraveling signaled by everything from a rash of kidnappings of foreigners to the admission by U.S. commanders that supply lines to Baghdad were being choked by marauding insurgents. Reports that two major U.S. contracting firms involved in restoring electricity supplies were withdrawing because of the security situation underscored the implications of the ongoing violence for the reconstruction...
...Rangoon has grown seedier without becoming more prosperous. Karaoke pickup joints have spread like a nasty rash across the city from their original reserve in Theingyi Bazaar, a multistory firetrap of sex clubs run by Wa and ethnic-Chinese drug traffickers under the protection of Burmese military intelligence. Even the few positive changes seem, on closer inspection, not much to shout about. For example, Rangoon now boasts a dozen or so cybercaf?s, but they charge a dollar an hour?more than the average daily wage?and deny access to hundreds of sites deemed "inappropriate." Who surfs what is easy...
...Sunni extremists, whose attacks—though demoralizing—were less destructive and more infrequent before the recent assistance of Shiite militia. Rather, the current alliance has resulted in increasing violence and a loss of control in important cities, while continuing to refute President Bush’s rash claims that major combat is over. The situation on the ground confirms fears that a large, expensive, long-term military presence and effective security force is the only solution...