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...last ten minutes of the game featured some sloppy play by both teams, as Brown never got closer than 16 points the rest of the way. The one highlight of the latter stages of the game was an electrifying one-handed tomahawk jam by Winter which brought the crowd to its feet...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper and Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: M. Hoops Gets Knocked Down, But Gets Up Again | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

...Navy women have in fact been playing an increasing combat role. In 1996, Lieut. Junior Grade Erica Niedermeier became the first woman to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles from a warship in combat, helping send 13 into southern Iraq. Two years later, flying her F-18 off the U.S.S. Enterprise in a mission over Iraq, Lieut. Kendra Williams became the first female pilot in U.S. history to drop bombs on an enemy target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aye, Aye, Ma'am | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...arrangements on the Golan, which could include an early warning station, airborne surveillance and demilitarized zones, are a sufficient substitute for the Golan itself. Perhaps counter-intuitively, Israel calculates that it will become stronger without the Golan. The advanced weapons the U.S. will furnish Israel to "guarantee the peace"--Tomahawk missiles, Apache helicopters and missile defense systems--will endow it with a deterrent and second strike capability unparalleled in the Middle East...

Author: By David P. Honig, | Title: Paradoxical Peace in the Middle East | 1/10/2000 | See Source »

...Even after managing in Atlanta, does that tomahawk chant make your skin crawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Winning and Winning Again | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...both President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the war in Kosovo has been as much about morals as it has been about geopolitics. Every Tomahawk, every B-2 and every smart bomb was working not only to demolish the Serbs' will to fight but also to destroy the idea that dictators could commit the nastiest of crimes as long as they acted inside their own country. It was a war, says Maryland's Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, an influential Clinton adviser, designed to show that men like Slobodan Milosevic "cannot hide behind a border." But for Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping The Peace: The Three Ifs of a Clinton Doctrine | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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