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...some things go viral that shouldn't. One notorious surveillance video, still at large online, shows a suspect in a San Bernardino County, Calif., police station shooting himself in the head with a pistol. Another video shows a chubby kid waving a golf-ball retriever like a light saber. The kid, Ghyslain Raza, was 15 at the time. Three of his classmates found the footage and put it online, and it became an instant Internet classic. Soon strangers started making fun of Raza on the street. The San Francisco Giants put the video on their Jumbotron. Raza, now 18, became...
...public saber-rattling over Iran began in earnest this past weekend, as both the Washington Post and the New Yorker magazine reported on internal debates inside the Bush administration on a military option to deal with Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Monday morning, President Bush dismissed the reports as "just wild speculation," saying such mind games happen "quite frequently here in the nation?s capital." But it?s a safe bet - assuming Tehran, which shows no sign of backing down, doesn?t retreat - that such "wild speculation" will ripen into "informed speculation" and finally into a real live war plan...
...Colonel Mohammed Saber Monseffi, the chief crime officer at the 15th district police station in Kabul, brought Abdul Rahman in for questioning after a domestic dispute turned violent late last month. Says Monseffi, "He told me, 'I'm a Christian,' and I said that is not of any interest to me. I asked him why did you beat your father, why did you beat your daughters?" The fact that Rahman was Christian was secondary to his family's desire to get him out of the house, said Monseffi, who adds that his own wife is a Russian Christian...
...Saturday, the Crimson men’s saber and epee teams combined for 35 victories to guide Harvard to a three-bout lead over Penn State and a four-bout edge over Notre Dame heading into the final day of competition. The epee squad of Ungar and senior Julian Rose won more bouts than any other men’s epee squad in the competition, and junior saberist Tim Hagamen finished fourth overall...
...Fellow saber David Jakus clinched the national title with 5-4 bout win to give Harvard an insurmountable lead in the final round of saber bouts on Sunday afternoon...