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Blomquist felt that given the time to train on their own, the Harvard rowers were given more freedom to feed off each other. In a vicious cycle, they ended up working harder than they might have otherwise...
...long been known in Iraq and beyond that as venal and vicious as Saddam Hussein was, Uday was worse. Now that the regime has fallen, the quotidian details of the son's outrages are beginning to emerge. With Iraqis free to speak more openly, it has become clear that the malignancy of Uday's behavior actually exceeded that of his reputation. At the same time, new hints are emerging about his psychological state. Uday, now 38, suffered not only from the anguish of Saddam's disapproval--the son was too unprincipled even for his father--but also often from physical...
...dead were GAM suspects killed during a shoot-out. The terrified villagers told me a very different story. I arrived in the area just as a company of high-spirited soldiers was leaving. "You should have come earlier," grinned a burly soldier wearing the insignia of Indonesia's notoriously vicious Kopassus special forces. "You missed all the action...
...when I applied for college, I crossed my fingers that I wouldn’t end up at a place with fewer students than my high school—1,200. I wanted to actually get to know a few hundred people, but if I did something worthy of vicious gossip, I could start all over without worrying too much about my reputation. I thought that Harvard’s 1650 students per class was the perfect class size. And I continued to think so until senior events began...
...with fundamentalists spread throughout the region, "There are just so many who have the ability to create terror," frets the source close to the Bali investigation. "The threat is very real." And, he adds grimly, the publicity surrounding Indonesia's spate of arrests and trials may well incite a vicious backlash: "These guys want revenge...