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...insurgent's yoke. In practice, however, it's a lot more complicated, especially in the Korengal Valley, where a toxic combination of local grievances, Taliban sympathizers, al-Qaeda operatives and professional warlords has taken 39 American lives since 2006. For a few days I based myself at Restrepo, an American firebase perched on a mountain ridge overlooking three of the valley's most important villages. One, called Loi Kolay, had been particularly problematic. Last November the Taliban pulled the village elder out of the mosque and shot him, accusing him of working with the Americans. Then they beheaded his corpse...
...morning a bullet ripped through the thick fog blanketing Restrepo, then another. "We got contact," some one screamed. The soldiers, part of first platoon, Bravo Company, 1-26 of the First Infantry Division, jumped to their firing positions, and squad leaders started shouting mortar coordinates into their radios. "I can't see s---," said one. "Where's it coming from?" Reports of more fire started coming in from the Korengal Outpost, the main base, and then from Dallas, a nearby observation post where one of the men had been hit by shrapnel. It was a coordinated attack; the dense clouds...
...Harvard got three-game wins from sophomore No. 3 Jen Blumberg—9-7, 9-5, 9-2 over Ashley Clackson—and junior No. 6 Lydia Williams, 9-3, 9-1, 9-3, over Fernanda Rocha. Duboc rallied from a first-game loss to beat Isa Restrepo 1-9, 9-4, 9-0, 9-4. Despite the Harvard loss, the Ivy title, which is to be decided in dual matches, remained up for grabs. “It’s good that Trinity’s not an Ivy team,” Duboc said, adding...
...fortune in the desert, where the mainstream residential real estate and hotel markets are still quite healthy, shows just how quickly the odds can change in even the most affluent markets if runaway speculation and overzealous development take hold. ?It?s another case of irrational exuberance,? says John Restrepo, head of a Las Vegas real estate and economic consulting firm. ?There is a market for high-rise condo hotels here; but it?s not as deep as people thought it was. The days of the two guys from the East Coast or Canada coming into town and promoting a condo...
Morales and Restrepo are middle-aged janitors employed by ABM, a janitorial services contractor. They often work downtown, and yesterday they were working at Suffolk University...