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...Thanks to images from a cell phone, we now know that the Iraqi National Police unit we turned Saddam over to was in fact a Shi'a lynch mob. Saddam's hangmen made no effort to hide their allegiance, taunting the deposed Iraqi leader with the name of radical Shi'ite cleric and power broker Muqtada al-Sadr. Afterwards, they danced around Saddam's corpse...
...five houses a day. Many of the Sunni families forced from their homes have now gathered in an enclave in central Ghazaliya under the protection of a local sheik named Hamed Ne'ma Taher al-Obaydy, who has turned his block into an Alamo of sorts. Cartee's unit hopes to stop the onslaught before Hamed's holdout of about 1,200 people falls, but lately hopes on both sides have dimmed. "They're not surrounded yet, but they will be soon," says Cartee, a reedy young officer from West Virginia who speaks with a slight southern accent. Cartee thinks...
...that I first met Josephine Fiorentino—then chair of the board of directors for the Charlesview Apartments—she spoke with passion about the historical importance of the 213-unit affordable housing development as a community within Allston. She did not meet with me to dwell on the past or to bemoan the difficult challenges of operating an aging housing complex like Charlesview. She made it abundantly clear that what she and her fellow Charlesview board members were focused on was the long term future of Charlesview; and that, they thought, involved Harvard...
...group currently making public claims in order to address its specific concerns. We have recently conducted a survey of all 213 households. At this time, over half of the households have responded favorably to the prospect of the Brighton Mills relocation, and voiced their preference for a rental unit or a homeownership unit...
...hockey team netted three consecutive goals and held off a Dartmouth charge to upend the No. 19 Big Green, 3-2, Saturday night at the Bright Hockey Center.Long touted as a goalscorer, junior winger Mike Taylor had a career night, skating with the top power-play unit and registering his first multi-goal game for the Crimson (4-9-0, 3-7-0 ECAC) with man-advantage scores in the first and second periods.“I’ve always been taught, ‘As long you’re getting chances, that’s good...