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...Cook's unit managed to turn the area around by patrolling 24-hours a day and putting up walls to choke off the flow of insurgents from the low-lying areas to the south. They went house to house, meeting every family they could find, asking about their problems, offering to help where they could and in the process building a network of reliable contacts and informants. They called these operations called 'close encounters...
...unit has come to know the neighborhood in a way that would have been unthinkable just after the war, or even into 2004 and 2005. In fact, the U.S. military has never secured Iraq or controlled it so completely as it has today, and never before has their wealth of intelligence and ability to analyze it been better. And yet never before has the military looked and acted less like a fighting force than does today. "The problems that we have to worry about now - making sure the volunteers posted at the girls' high school don't stare...
...money made from purloined art sometimes goes into the coffers of drug and arms dealers, even terrorists. "We have indisputable evidence that criminal networks are involved in art crime," says Vernon Rapley, head of Scotland Yard's Art and Antiques Unit. There's no way to measure accurately how much the illicit art trade - which includes stolen art, fakes, forgeries and looted artifacts - is actually worth. But some estimates run as high as $6 billion a year...
...goals per game average to 1.13, which places her at third in the nation among defensemen. SPECIAL DELIVERY Harvard’s rout of the Eagles was due in large part to its special teams play. Both the Crimson’s power play and penalty kill units dominated, overwhelming BC at both ends of the ice. The Eagles played a physical game from the beginning, and the contest took a rougher turn as BC showed its frustration as Harvard piled on goals. The Eagles committed seven penalties, giving the Crimson six power play opportunites. Harvard capitalized with four goals...
...freshman…he’s doing well. He’s a tough kid.” This changing of the guard also gives the bench a very different look. Housman and Harris are among the first off the bench and give life to the second unit. “I think that’s one of the keys for us now. Our bench has given us a lift to where we can play more bodies and when we go to our bench, instead of a drop off, we’re picking up the pace...