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...Kong scuffle, “until it escalated into a full-scale rumble.” While leaving the restaurant, about four Harvard students exchanged words with four townies. Parker admits that his memory of the fight is “a little hazy, but there were punches being thrown and people falling into the street.” He says that while some guys on both sides attempted to break up the fight, others jumped right in. Parker himself ended up getting taken to the ground on Holyoke Street, cutting his thumb on the concrete. Things settled down, despite...
...school in Virginia, preparing for an entirely different assignment overseas. (What language and what posting, he would not say.) The agency yanked him out to join the first U.S. team going into Afghanistan. That was typical for a CIA paramilitary officer, who at a moment's notice may be thrown into what John calls a pickup team. John's team included four CIA officers fluent in Farsi or Dari who for years had been sneaking into Afghanistan, recruiting spies for the agency. Their mission now was to hook up with those contacts, collect intelligence for the impending U.S. aerial attack...
After 20 days of exams and papers, Harvard was thrown into the heart of its road schedule immediately, and at times the rust showed. The schedule maker, as Don Cheadle might say, turned cruelty into cruelty. Even the order of the games was a killer—Harvard didn’t play Penn until Saturday, thus missing the game Andrew Toole sat out due to an ankle injury. This, of course, gave Toole the necessary 24 hours any player who hasn’t practiced for a week needs to miraculously heal and drop 21, six and five...
...Khmer avenger wore flip-flops and a Britney Spears T shirt. He strode through the shattered glass doors of Thailand's embassy in Phnom Penh and made his way to a well-appointed interior office. There he joined a group of boys who had thrown a painting of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej to the floor. The boys didn't hesitate. The picture was torn and stomped on. "Thailand is no good," they shouted...
Harrington said he thought more people might have responded if the Palfreys had sent the e-mail over the Schmooze, where their opinions “would have been thrown up just like any other student would have expressed an opinion...