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...probably remember how Scott Helvenston and his three colleagues died. Video of their killings made newscasts around the world on March 31, 2004, when a Blackwater security convoy was ambushed by gunmen in Fallujah, Iraq. The four men were dragged from their cars, mutilated by a mob and set on fire. The torsos of Helvenston and fellow Blackwater employee Jerry Zovko were hung from the green steel girders of a bridge on the edge of town. In Fallujah, it's still known as Blackwater Bridge...
...night before Scott died, Katy Helvenston had turned her phone's ringer off while she slept. When she woke up, there was a message from...
...almost three years, Katy has kicked herself for missing his call. She wonders what Scott would have told her about some of the things that were going wrong with his mission that day. Maybe she could have persuaded him not to go. She knows that's unlikely--the same kind of willful wishing that any mother whose child was killed in action might have. It's too late to keep him safe, but she still wants to know what happened after he hung up the phone. And because her son died for his company, not his country...
...Harvard men’s tennis team maintained its momentum, but fell, 6-1, against No. 3 Virginia in a match where the score did not reflect the close matches that characterized Crimson play. “The team showed some strength,” senior co-captain Scott Denenberg said. “Gideon [Valkin] had a close match, Ashwin [Kumar] had a good win, I had a close match, Dan [Nguyen] had a close match. A few of those flip-flop or we win a doubles point, and the match could have gone the other...
...muscles warm. It’s been injury prevention, so many fewer tears than usual.”“One of the things that is so important at the start is the ability to teach, which means stopping and talking about team play,” coach Scott Anderson added. “When it’s really cold we can’t teach effectively, we just have to keep people moving, otherwise their concentration isn’t good.”And teams are already seeing the bubble’s effects...