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...absence of the ball of fur that slept on the foot of my bed.It’s weird being here at school without a pet. Freshman year, I illegally kept a hermit crab named Hubert in my Grays common room. My roommates and I adored him (and his shell, with a smiley face painted on it) but when he died in February, we cremated him, tossed his crabby coffin into the Charles, and moved on. Now I can’t imagine having a pet, seeing as I can’t even remember to water plants.The only animals...
...Richard Shell...
...having a worthy adversary during its regular season, Harvard was unsurprisingly shell shocked when it traveled to southern California to play UCLA in the second round of the NCAAs...
...translate questions from his friends. Ibrahim says one region to the east of town still swarms with members of the Jaish al Mahdi - the militia loyal to anti-American Shi'a cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, which the soldiers call "JAM" for short. Ibrahim and others complain that the Americans shell the area regularly, reminding some of the men of the horrors of the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s...
That's Vansandt's cue. The American bombs are the bad cop to his good cop routine. He tells them that the Americans shell the region because the JAM use it to launch rockets at the nearby U.S. Forward Operating Base Kalsu outside the nearby city of Iskandariyah. Only the Iraqis in the area can make it go away. "When the [local] sheiks get a [volunteer] program for Abu Jassim [the eastern zone uncontrolled by the U.S.], then we can stop the bombing," he says. "Tell the sheiks what you want...