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...maximum of two people per school can qualify for the NCAA championship in each weapon, although Blase would have been on the bubble even if she had been eligible as one of Harvard’s top two female foil fencers...
Former Harvard captain Justin Denham ’02—the Crimson’s main offensive weapon last season—was the line judge on Sunday. Luckily, Harvard wouldn’t need his help—as either a sympathetic official or force at the net—to beat the Brewers...
...cramped and hot inside a light armored vehicle (LAV). Wearing a flak vest and helmet, and a belt hung with weapon, flashlight, knife and gas mask, a Marine has just enough room to slide into his seat. The commander sits behind a thermal eyepiece, surrounded by metal and wires and the photo his girlfriend gave him when he left a few weeks ago. To his left is the gunner, whose job is to feed in rounds, making sure they don't tangle. Below and ahead but out of sight unless he leans back so far he is lying almost flat...
...again on or soon after March 1 - in the middle of the two weeks of debate on the new resolution envisaged by Britain and the U.S. - the al-Samoud 2 test therefore becomes a crucial indicator. If Blix tells the Council that Iraq is refusing to destroy a prohibited weapon, that may put the kibosh on calls to give the inspection process more time. But an Iraqi decision to destroy the missiles under UN supervision could have the reverse effect, providing more ammunition for France, Germany and Russia to argue that inspections be given more time. (No wonder, then, that...
...that the al-Samoud 2 is, in any sense, a weapon of mass destruction - it is a medium-range missile designed to carry a conventional explosive warhead. But where the missile falls foul of the inspection regime is that its range exceeds the 93-mile limit set by the UN in 1991. (A number of technical specifications also exceed UN limits in ways that prompt Blix's team to suspect it may simply be version 2.0 of a planned long-range Iraqi missile.) The fact that the extent of the al-Samoud 2's infraction is reportedly no more than...