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...Lowell House, resident SASH tutor Kirsten D. Sword has tried to organize preventive education--but says few people show...
DIED. STEVE REEVES, 74, sword-and-sandal-epic actor who pumped his Mr. Universe physique into the popular role of Hercules in a series of films in the 1950s and '60s; of lymphoma complications; in Escondido, Calif...
Live by the sword, die by the sword...
...Sayyaf, meaning "Bearer of the Sword," was set up in 1991 by Abdurajak Abubakar Janjalani, a veteran of the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan. With some 600 fighters, Abu Sayyaf says, it is struggling for an independent Muslim state, but its actions have been little more than localized terror and kidnapping. It is known to receive support from the Middle East, though claims that Osama bin Laden visited its operations have never been proved. In 1993 Abu Sayyaf rolled grenades down the aisle of a Catholic cathedral and killed seven worshippers. In 1995 its fighters invaded a Christian village...
With these magnificent craft, the Norse searched far and wide for goods they couldn't get at home: silk, glass, sword-quality steel, raw silver and silver coins that they could melt down and rework. In return they offered furs, grindstones, Baltic amber, walrus ivory, walrus hides and iron...