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Where Sharon fought, there was usually controversy. As head of Unit 101, Israel's first commando team, he was assigned in 1953 to avenge the murder of an Israeli woman and her two toddlers by Palestinian infiltrators from the West Bank village of Qibya. Sharon's forces destroyed a few dozen buildings in Qibya, killing 69 villagers and earning Israel a censure at the U.N. Charged with cleaning Palestinian fighters out of the now Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip after the '67 war, he did so with ruthless efficiency. It was Sharon who pushed Israeli Prime Minister Begin to bomb Iraq...
...smoke in the hallway,” she said. “But it didn’t look like that bad a fire. I was just concerned about my take-home final, which I had left in my room.” Blake said that the last fire unit left the scene at 1:37 a.m., after firefighters had extinguished the pizza box. “It was very efficient,” he said. —Staff writer Reed B. Rayman can be reached at rrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...willingness to subpoen a reporters and their records could change that. And the CIA has a group of mostly retired officers on contract to read news stories that contain classified material and try to uncover their sources. This may be the toughest spook work. Over the years, the unit, nicknamed "the leak chasers" by some agency hands, has been able to finger only a few talkers. But it has an enthusiastic?and active?backer in Goss. He told TIME in June that he had made dozens of leak-investigation referrals. "Virtually every day I can pick up a paper...
...road as Harvard knocked off the Big Red to complete a four-point ECAC road trip weekend. Brine was the offensive star for the second straight day, netting two goals and assist while seeming very comfortable in her new roles on the top line and top power-play unit.“The new lines are working very well,” Brine said. “Everything is clicking on offense.”Special teams, in a very physical contest that saw each team assessed seven penalties, was the major story with Harvard scoring two of its goals...
...Dover school board became the first in the nation to explicitly embrace intelligent design in October of 2004, when it required teachers to read the brief statement at the start of the evolution unit in the biology class. Teachers later refused and the statement was read instead by administrators. Jones said the Dover case was the result of ?the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy...