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...goalie got a hand on it, but it was just too powerful," Wheaton said. "It was just a rocket...
...been engaged in combat for about 20 minutes when a rocket-propelled grenade hit the helicopter and literally took off its tail. The crash was extremely violent; I think I have compressed my spinal cord. After the crash, a crew member took me out of the helicopter . . . then ((the Somalis)) came in masses. They beat me violently with their fists and with sticks. They tore off all my clothes." Naked, blindfolded, his hands bound, Durant was carried triumphantly above the heads of raging crowds, and "I was still being hit but less brutally. I understood then that someone had decided...
...such progress -- even some, like Sergeant Roy Malasig of the 362nd Engineer Company, who were wounded -- the Somalia mission has seemed worthwhile. Last month, just days after arriving in Somalia, Malasig's right leg was peppered with shrapnel when his unit was attacked by gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades. Recuperating at home near Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Malasig is eager to return to his unit in Somalia. But if he does return, he knows it will be to a place bedeviled by bloodshed and paradox. "It's like this," he explains, "I was driving down the road...
Then came Game Two. The supposed pitching classic: Doc against the Rocket. Well, it was more like Abbott vs. Costello. Gooden was horrible, and Clemens was something less than mediocre. The Sox won a sloppy...
...students seeking aid: The burning question is no longer which is the better school, but which school offers the "better buy." Longtime the domain of professional athletes who have achieved free-agency--the practice is to sign with whichever team makes the best offer (for the running back Rocket Ismail, this meant playing in Canada instead of the NFL)--we cannot ethically superimpose the practice on college admissions...