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...incident that eventually spurred Anderson to seek House's counsel took place just before he earned his Purple Heart. While trying to quell a disturbance outside a police station one night, his unit came under heavy attack. Anderson says he saw a car that appeared to be emitting sparks drive into the middle of the melee. Instructed to start shooting, Anderson held his fire--and the car turned out to be carrying only a startled family. Afterward, Anderson claims, his sergeants told him, "'Next time, you open fire, just in case.' Basically they have a standard procedure that...
...Sayyaf, a terrorist organization in the Philippines, isn't shy about owning up to its dirty work. "We did it!" spokesman Abu Sulaiman crowed to a local radio station a few hours after a bomb on a ferry killed more than 100 passengers last February. At the time, Philippine officials scoffed at the claim because they didn't think the group had the ability to pull off such a deadly attack. (It wasn't until eight months later that the authorities acknowledged that Abu Sayyaf was indeed responsible.) Sulaiman didn't want to be taken so lightly last week...
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Lately, building the ’zine has taken a back seat to staging events like the Cube and the Dance Conspiracy, in which a silent swarm of people vacillated and jived to rhythms supplied by Harvard radio station WHRB through portable radio headphones. These events aim at making people aware of their surroundings—their “space and place” as Present! co-founder Neasa Coll ’05 puts it. “Some of the events we’ve had have happened outside or they’ve happened in places...
Like his mother, Micah, who is now based at California's Miramar Air Station, where he repairs helicopters, sometimes wishes he could head to Iraq to look for his brother: "I'm not special operations. It's not like I could go out and find him myself, but I would if I could." Micah faced a dilemma once his brother was captured and his parents asked him to accept the Marines' offer to stay close to home. "If he wants to go to Iraq after this, that's fine," his mother says. "But I don't need two sons over...