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...great, arrow-shaped missile appeared, zeroing in on its target a hundred yards away and sounding like a car decelerating in high gear. The spotters lay flat. Alliance commanders and soldiers crouched against the door leading to the roof. The missile hit at 4:05 p.m. For a split second, as the concussive sound waves radiated outward, lungs emptied. Shrapnel whistled by. Then Alliance soldiers burst into applause. A U.S. soldier picked up a fallen piece of metal. "Souvenir," he said, grinning. Six more strikes followed before the British SAS commander re-established contact with Dave, still penned in with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Battle at Qala-I-Jangi | 12/1/2001 | See Source »

...Three minutes," said the SAS guy. "Two minutes...30 seconds." Everyone crouched once more against the wall. Again a glistening white arrow screamed down, again the split-second blackout. "One more," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Battle at Qala-I-Jangi | 12/1/2001 | See Source »

...There's something else inspiring in the fact that, as Harrison once said, the Beatles never really left us, so, following that reasoning, Harrison will never really leave us either. "The Beatles can't ever really split up because as we said at the time we did split up, it doesn't really make any difference," Harrison once said. "The music is there, the films are all there. Whatever we did is still there and always will be." All things must pass, but they don't pass completely away. The quiet Beatle, in one way or another, will always make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Harrison: 1943-2001 | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

Women in the audience questioned panelists about gender roles. Jane Gray ’95 said she wondered how many men were willing to split household responsibilities equally...

Author: By Benjamin D. Margo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Panel Probes Dual Roles of Professional Mothers | 11/30/2001 | See Source »

Harvard also split games with Clarkson last year, winning 3-1 on the road but losing at home, 5-4. Clarkson lost to both Northeastern and Providence this past weekend, and thus will likely crave the opportunity to return to league action...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Faces Big ECAC Test | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

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