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...Women hurled potatoes onto the street like grenades, duping the Iraqi soldiers into diving to the ground, while male insurgents unloaded machine-gun fire or threw real grenades. During three hours of fighting, U.S. forces finally unleashed high-explosive rounds from a 25-mm cannon, obliterating the two-man RPG teams, to quiet the boulevard. Two Iraqi guardsmen were killed, and U.S. commanders say their troops killed dozens of insurgents in the fire fight. But the attacks haven't subsided. "[The insurgents are] not intimidated," says Staff Sergeant Wilbert Tynes. "You've actually got to wipe them...
These are hardly the point, but go a long way in making what is otherwise a stock action-RPG more immersive than it should be. The real test is how well its given set of character classes, equipment, magical items and foes hold up over countless stages of battle. Crystal Chronicles’ top-down gameplay has been compared to Diablo and Zelda, but is most reminiscent of Gauntlet, in which a small band of heroes roved endlessly across tidy little maps filled with monsters and treasure chests. Brilliantly, the countless skirmishes you’ll encounter reflect the turn...
...interviewed by TIME and gave a chilling description of a recent attack on the Marines there. He said when three U.S. tanks, six humvees and about 70 Marines entered the Nazar district of Fallujah, a group of 25 insurgents ambushed them with a Russian-made PK machine gun, an RPG and AK assault rifles; destroyed one tank and disabled another; and fled before the Americans could return fire. On Saturday coalition forces unexpectedly announced that the main highways leading north and south from Baghdad had been closed indefinitely to civilian traffic. The official reason given was repair work...
Sophomore power forward Matt Stehle, especially, has enjoyed something of a breakout season in Cusworth’s absence. Stehle ranks 10th in the Ivy League in scoring (12.7 ppg), seventh in rebounding (5.6 rpg), third in field-goal percentage (.519), seventh in free-throw percentage (.783), second in blocks (1.60 bpg) and is tied for sixth in steals...
Sophomore power forward Matt Stehle, especially, has enjoyed something of a breakout season in Cusworth’s absence. Stehle ranks 10th in the Ivy League in scoring (12.7 ppg), seventh in rebounding (5.6 rpg), third in field-goal percentage (.519), seventh in free-throw percentage (.783) and second in blocks (1.60 bpg) and is tied for sixth in the conference in steals...