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...graduating, he went straight to boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. He fought in Desert Storm, made sergeant in three years, and left as a scout sniper with a bunch of medals. But in 1993 he left the Marines and returned to Manhattan. He took night classes at New York University and worked by day as an energy trader for Goldman Sachs. After earning a degree in economics, he co-founded Filter Media, a company focusing on interactive TV. He grew long hair and wore flamboyant clothes. In 1999 he met a former model who had worked with the photographer...
This time around, however, the team will have to do without sophomore forward Liza Solley, tied for fourth on the team with seven goals. A valuable sniper on the second line, the most stable unit on the team so far this season, Solley went down with an arm injury in Tuesday night’s Beanpot final. Stone predicted Solley would not be suited up for the Northern swing...
...area code-named Queens. It gave the exhausted grunts a rare respite--an hour's sleep. At 4 a.m. they moved out and took up positions in another building. Within hours they encountered one of their most vicious confrontations yet, as insurgents riddled the rooftop with RPGs and sniper fire. The insurgents weren't intimidated even by the fury of the tanks, daring to step from behind corners to vainly hit them with RPGs. A soldier's ankle was shattered when an RPG sent concrete flying. Linking up with 1st Platoon to consolidate its position, the Wolf Pack fended...
Even with a shoddy journalistic record at the Times and his college and high school papers, Blair continued to be assigned high profile stories, including the Washington D.C. sniper case of late 2002. In this, one of the most important stories of his career, Blair attributed to numerous “anonymous” sources claims that were later refuted by law enforcement officials. In a less high-profile case, Blair’s colorful details eventually did him in, when a reporter from a regional newspaper noticed that Blair’s quotations about the home of the mother...
During the Ross’s transit through the Suez Canal, he writes in an e-mail, “the threat of RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] attacks or sniper fire is all too imminent... The canal is at points so narrow that standing on one of the banks, Johnny Damon could toss a baseball right through the Pilot house and out the other side. As well guarded as the canal is, it is still one of the most hair-raising events of the deployment because of the ever-looming possibilities...