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...first year studying photography. He describes the “terribly rude awakening” of laying out all his semester’s photographs in front of his professor, only to have the professor trash every last one of them. Johnson went back to work, taking a thousand photographs over the last three weeks of the semester and ending up with ten he considered usable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson’s Alternative Honorees for ’05 | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...unable to help, the Government of Sierra Leone hired Executive Outcomes, a South African mercenary army, to establish peace in return for $15 million and access to some diamond mines. With 200 soldiers and a helicopter gunship, Executive Outcomes managed to quell the rebels and restore order. Three hundred thousand refugees returned home, and within a year, Sierra Leone had its first presidential election in 28 years. The soldiers of Executive Outcomes are regarded with immense respect by Sierra-Leonians, many of who owe their lives to the soldiers...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Final Solution | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...veritable Palm Springs on the Euphrates. While good data is hard to find, most human rights experts agree that at least a million Iraqis were killed because of Saddam’s policies: half a million slaughtered because of Saddam’s aggression against Iran; a hundred thousand massacred because of Saddam’s invasion into Kuwait; and, at home, countless hundreds of thousands raped, tortured, and murdered...

Author: By Brian M. Goldsmith, | Title: To End a Wobble | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...When they made a huge push,” junior stroke Adam Kosmicki said, “the guys really responded to it. “They came off the move, and we just started taking it up and had a much stronger second one thousand...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Heavyweight Crew Overpowers Huskies in Dual Race Finale | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

...Coming out of the bridge,” senior five-seat Will Ulrich said, “we went from being up a seat to being down three-to-four seats through the one thousand...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Heavyweight Crew Overpowers Huskies in Dual Race Finale | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

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