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This area of Salem is a neighborhood where trailers and decaying colonials line the same streets as well-landscaped, fenced-in homes. There’s a strange dichotomy of small houses and big cars: a truck is squeezed onto nearly every driveway, and the few sedans in sight are large, American-made models...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Election 2004: College Dems Hit Pivotal N.H. Towns | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...begged them to tell members of Congress that this was a "suicide mission" because of the miserable condition of their unarmored vehicles. "Mom, I need you to raise pure hell," Specialist Amber McClenny said in a message on her family's answering machine in Dothan, Ala. Six of their trucks were scheduled to be removed from service because they were so outdated, and none could go faster than 40 m.p.h., according to Sergeant Larry McCook, who phoned his wife in Jackson, Miss. Specialist Major Coates told his father in Charlotte, N.C., that the platoon had been sent out earlier that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mutiny On The Convoy? | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...spell. "So much for rolling right on in," says Captain Brian Chontosh, who heads the infantrymen of India Company. But they are protected. The deep percussion of artillery impacting the target area booms through the night, sending a huge black cloud into the sky. Aerial surveillance spots a pickup truck with a mounted machine gun moving in from the west. From above comes a deep rumbling sound. "Basher took it out," says a radio operator in Chontosh's carrier. Insurgents seen trying to set up a mortar position are killed with a TOW missile fired by another company. Around midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking the Battle to the Enemy | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...think they’d be happy unless Harvard Yard was torn down for community benefit.” Town-gown relations must be a game of give-and-take; such a hard-line stance is horribly unproductive. Just as it would be wholly inappropriate for Harvard development to truck on unfettered, it is absurd to advocate what is tantamount to a freeze on University expansion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Cheese With That Whine? | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

...think they’d be happy unless Harvard Yard was torn down for community benefit.” Town-gown relations must be a game of give-and-take; such a hard-line stance is horribly unproductive. Just as it would be wholly inappropriate for Harvard development to truck on unfettered, it is absurd to advocate what is tantamount to a freeze on University expansion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Cheese With That Whine? | 10/20/2004 | See Source »

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