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...victim struck the face of the suspect, who returned the blow and fled the area, the advisory said...
...winter,” said hostess Shannon K. Seaver. After walking further into the premises, I finally found the bar. What I also found was a middle-aged man reading a newspaper. Trying to look a little older, I settled into my seat with my companion and struck up a conversation with Jon Olszweski, arguably the coolest bartender in Porter. Our discourse on why Christopher’s is not for the homeless crowd was interrupted, at first by Long Island Iced teas and then by a group of barely-21 students who badgered the attentive bartender to card them...
...They were different—no jocks, no preppies from the [final] clubs.” Adds Janus, “The kids who moved to the Quad weren’t into drinking and drugs, but fruit and chocolate.” “I remember being struck by that.” According to Eric S. Roberts ’73, a former Currier House tutor, the Quad housed more public school graduates, academics and feminists, and offered greater interaction between first-years and upperclass students due to their status as four-year Houses. One of today?...
...spies and double agents. Internal intelligence reported to Saddam that Iraq's defenses would probably collapse. "We diplomatically suggested he should not stay here," the colonel says, "because we couldn't tell him outright that he had to step down." Even as U.S. troops moved into his capital, Saddam struck a resilient pose, appearing on Iraqi TV one day wading through a worshipful Baghdad crowd, grinning broadly, pumping his fist in the air, stopping to kiss a child...
...important thing I could do because it would bring an end to the war sooner," al-Timman says. On April 7 he milled with bystanders as rescuers dug through the rubble of several destroyed houses in the Baghdad suburb of al-Mansur. The Pentagon, thinking Saddam was inside, had struck the buildings. But the rescuers told al-Timman that Saddam had just been there briefly to inspect the damage and offer condolences for those killed. Al-Timman made sure that Saddam's body was not among those retrieved, then phoned in what he had learned so the hunt for Saddam...