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...value was limited. Two complexes suspected of being al-Qaeda staging posts were discovered with caches of hundreds of rocket-propelled grenade rounds, mines and ammunition, but the enemy was nowhere to be found; the most threatening local seemed to be an old woman carrying a hatchet over her shoulder and complaining about her uninvited guests...
Themes, sometimes of immense moral complexity, thread through the scraps and diaries. There are more than enough glimpses of what might be called the sporting beast--for example, an SS officer's satanically playful execution of a young Jewish mother with a baby on her shoulder, to whom the officer had, a moment before, given a loaf of bread. Or this, recorded by an anonymous woman: "One day a small Jewish boy was killed on Biala Street as he attempted to pull a carrot lying in the gutter on the Aryan side through a hole in the fence. A German...
Princeton quarterback David Splithoff, who has been forced to leave each of the Tigers’ last two games against Harvard at Princeton Stadium early due to injury. Two years ago, he suffered a broken jaw that ended his season; on Saturday, he dislocated his shoulder...
...these rooms, hung with wreaths and watercolors, we learned to add and subtract with translucent jewels. When we got to multiplication, we were crowned knights of the three-times table by a tap on each shoulder with a wooden sword...
...game-winner from No. 19 BC (11-4) came six minutes into the second overtime. The ball was shot high by Eagle forward Lauren Schultz, and it hit Harvard freshman midfielder Jen McDavitt on the shoulder before rolling into the right corner of the goal. Harvard coach Sue Caples immediately confronted the officials, arguing that there should have been no goal because it was a dangerous ball...