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...Army 352nd Civil Affairs Command soldier died of wounds received July 1, when his convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device in Baghdad." It didn't mention Chris by name, but Betsy knew he was the only one in his unit to die that day. "I was shaken--I wanted to know what happened because I wanted to know what my husband went through," Betsy says. "Was he alone? Was someone he knew with him? Did he suffer...
...Daily Mail's headline after he died captures the feverish anger at the government: proud of yourselves?, it reads, over pictures of Blair, Campbell and Defense Minister Geoff Hoon. At a press conference in Japan, on an Asian trip that seemed almost surreal in its bad timing, a visibly shaken Blair was even asked if he had "blood on his hands." That's because Campbell was apparently instrumental in arranging the testimony that caused Kelly such heartache. How did that happen? It was Kelly himself, freshly returned from an Iraqi trip, who first alerted his superiors that he had briefed...
Judd B. Kessler ’04, an economics concentrator in Adams House, is an editorial chair of The Crimson. This summer he is having his $15 mocha lattes neither shaken nor stirred...
...constantly swatting down copycats trying to cash in on Pottermania. Her legal team recently won victories against a Chinese knock-off, Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon, and a Russian novel about Tanya Grotter, an orphan with magical powers who attends a boarding school. Rowling was badly shaken when an American writer named Nancy Stouffer claimed she had stolen the word muggle and otherwise plagiarized Stouffer's work. A New York City federal judge found that Stouffer had "perpetrated a fraud." It felt, Rowling says, "as if some strange woman had come out of nowhere saying...
...were lucky. Photographer Philip Blenkinsop and I emerged from the jungle earlier this year scratched and shaken, but we carried with us a unique story about a little-known people, the Hmong, desperately fighting for survival.That story, which appeared in TIME last month, showed the devastating effect of the military campaign launched by the communist leaders of Laos to eradicate the Hmong. The tribe's inexcusable crime? Siding with the U.S. in the 1960s during the Vietnam...