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Arden Anlian, a GW sophomore from New Mexico, stood next to Dierker. “Our campus is pretty dang liberal,” she sang in a southwestern drawl. A red, white and blue streamer dangled from her hand. “We’re not a very big athletic school, but when it comes to politics we are hardcore...
Dustin Long, QB, Sam Houston State—Long got out of the gate strong—except for a four interception performance against Southwestern Missouri State—but since then, he’s been no better than average. Over his past two contests, the 6’3 senior has averaged 16 completions for 231 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions. He has still managed to hold onto the second spot in passer efficiency rating, but his nine interceptions on the season are tied for the most of any of the top 33 players in that category...
...company from the 2nd Tank Battalion--a combined force exceeding 1,000 troops--were about to launch the biggest move on Fallujah in months. The 3/5 would not enter the city but intended to go right up to the southeastern outskirts. The Army would move to the southwestern edge and the tankers to the northern limits, while F/A-18s continued to pound suspected insurgent hideouts. Yet this was not the big showdown everyone had expected but rather an attempt to see how the insurgents inside the city would respond. A Marine battle-operations officer called it "a dress rehearsal...
...high. Doctors can sustain a tiny baby with severe bleeding in the brain, with lungs so fragile that even the gentlest respirator can permanently damage them. But should they? "That's when neonatology becomes a difficult and ethically fraught field," says Dr. Myra Wyckoff of the University of Texas Southwestern Health Science Center in Dallas. No matter how you answer the question, surely the best solution is to find a way to reduce the number of extremely premature births from happening in the first place. --Reported by Anna Macias Aguayo/Dallas, David Bjerklie/ New York, Paul Cuadros/Chapel Hill, N.C., and Leslie...
...three remaining generations of Lair men (including Jason’s son Zach, played precociously by Jonah Bobo) embark on a macabre scavenger hunt to fulfill the seemingly arbitrary ash-scattering commands of Henry’s will. Their rusting VW bus barrels across the kaleidoscopic mesascapes of the Southwestern U.S., a sensitive narrative unfolding like the detailed notes they must open at each Kentucky Fried Chicken they visit...