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...other side of the Euphrates, east of Najaf, the 7th Cavalry ran into an even bigger fight. This time the main attack came during a swirling dust storm that made thermal night sights useless. Iraqi irregulars swarmed around the U.S. forces. The Americans were ordered to stay put and shoot at anything that moved. By midnight it was over. Two U.S. tanks were lost, blasted from behind--their most vulnerable spot--by antiaircraft guns mounted on pickups. Because of the M1's unique armor, no one on either tank was injured. And one of the tanks is recoverable...
Civilians, meanwhile, continually wandered out of town to encourage and even beg the U.S. soldiers to take Najaf. They said fedayeen irregulars were forcing local members of the al-Quds militia to fight by gathering their families and threatening to shoot them if they did not oppose the Americans. At one point, locals came out to thank the Americans for killing the area's Baath party leader, who they said had been executing civilians. The Baath leader, they said, had been killed in an air strike on a fedayeen stronghold...
...first, film students learn to cut and slice their films at editing tables; by junior year, they shoot their own projects. This system is rare even at first-tier professional film schools, like Tisch at New York University, where novice undergraduates typically “apprentice” and work on the projects of seniors. At some graduate film schools, students are not allowed to shoot their own projects until their second year...
Still, film outside VES is alive, with extracurricular organizations such as the Journal of Cinematic Studies and the Dudley House Film Society. Scattered students, Newkirk included, shoot their own independent films...
...really good three-point shooters and late in the game a big three-point shot can really get the momentum going for you,” junior point guard Bev Moore said. “Pretty much everybody on our team has the green light to shoot the three anytime we get them...