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...them, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology David Haig, said he expects the department to split eventually along the lines suggested in the proposal...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bio-Anthro Profs Seek Own Dept. | 6/8/2005 | See Source »

...Black and White turned in the field’s best split in the third 500 meters, allowing it to move up on the Tigers and the Golden Bears...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Both Radcliffe Lights and Heavies Take Third at Nationals | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

Sayer's jazz drummer father, Gerry, and Betty, her frazzled mother, are bottle buddies who happen to have three small children. When her parents split, Sayer's freewheeling childhood descends into a grim saga: she moves from suburb to suburb, school to school, always at the mercy of Betty's genius for sabotaging her own security and picking up the wrong bloke at the pub. Amid this culture of poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, alcoholism and fear, Sayer blossoms. She finds ways to escape the misery, if only in bursts, through poetry, martial arts and music. Friends drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Secret Beer Garden | 6/1/2005 | See Source »

...thing he did,'' says the trooper. The SAS men opened fire. Alerted by the gunshots, armed men fanned out from the village below, some climbing the path toward the gun emplacement. The troopers fired shots and threw a grenade in an effort to keep them back, but the Afghans split up and outflanked them. Within minutes, bullets were whizzing from all directions. Machinegun rounds churned up the dirt, Kalashnikov bullets cracked overhead and rocket-propelled grenades screamed past. One grenade tore between two troopers who were just meters apart, detonating behind them with an ear-shattering airburst. The soldiers blazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Valley of Death | 5/30/2005 | See Source »

...patrol leader gave the order to move, he was told that one of his men had left a camera - an item forbidden on patrols - in the pack he'd shed near the bush hides. In a move that was extremely complex in the circumstances, the leader decided to split the patrol and send three of the men to retrieve the pack. On the way down the hill, the trooper who'd left the camera souvenired a turban, a rifle and a magazine of bullets from a dead villager, against the express instructions of his patrol leader. When the patrol leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Valley of Death | 5/30/2005 | See Source »

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