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With co-captain Cori Bassett in the box for checking, New Hampshire set up on its nation-leading extra-man unit. Though the Wildcats peppered Kessler with five shots, the netminder held up to the pressure...
...year we’re going for title 12,” the freshman said after last night’s win. “I think that’s definitely achievable and we’re going to work really hard to continue coming together as a unit in order to accomplish that...
...court-martial - essentially a military trial - is the oldest system of justice in the United States, predating even the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The roots of military law stretch back to ancient Rome, where it was adopted to enforce discipline within the ranks, especially among mercenaries. In 1775, the Continental Congress met at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War and adopted the Articles of War based on Britain's military code. The system was not heavily used in World War I, but in World War II some 2 million people were court-martialed for varying offenses, resulting...
...teenager, Leonor Marquez led a fleet-footed unit of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) guerrilla fighters through the steep mountain passes of Perkin, El Salvador. "We were young and fast," Marquez, now 37, remembers. She and her comrades, who were known as "Las Samuelitas", were a fierce group of insurgents who might have been giddy junior high girls had they not been in El Salvador in the 1980s...
...Lyon, France. Then on Nov. 5, when two co-workers briefly left him alone to run an errand, he allegedly vanished with more than $17.2 million in unmarked bills. It only took police a few days to recover most of the stolen loot - nearly $14 million - in a storage unit in Lyon, and then on Monday, Musulin turned himself in to authorities in Monaco (without the remaining $3.8 million). Many Frenchmen may have been a little disappointed by the news - in his two weeks on the run, Musulin had become one of the country's most popular antiheroes...