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...testified. The vehicles that the Blackwater team was driving on March 31 were not armored; they had only a piece of metal behind the backseat. During training, team members were told that they would be sent to Iraq with semiautomatic M4 machine guns and Glock handguns and that larger weapons, like a belt-fed 5.56 machine gun squad automatic weapon, would be issued upon arrival. They were also told they would be doing advance work in Iraq, gathering intelligence, inspecting routes and doing prep work before starting a new contract...
Hans Blix, the Swedish diplomat famed for his recent work as U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, said last night that the United States should spearhead the nuclear disarmament effort. He spoke before a full audience in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. The U.S. is a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, but has refused to sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which has been ratified by 138 states world wide. “I would like to see the U.S. come back to the role of ‘lead wolf’, and come...
...gartbage that he fondly remembers is a sculpture a student produced using cigarette butts and chewing gum. “They were cigarettes she had smoked and gum she chewed to stop smoking. The thing smelled awful; it smelled like a combination of menthol and some kind of chemical weapon,” recalls Pasternack. In a cruel example of Mother Nature not knowing what’s good for her, on the actual day of Pasternack’s show, rain dampened student turnout and forced them to throw out much of the trash art; this time it would...
...choice. He worked very hard for this—I couldn’t deny him it.”But the epee squad did not go home empty-handed.Junior Teddy Sherrill was able to make it, rounding out the list of Crimson qualifiers with at least one from each weapon and nine total.Two weeks from now, the team will try to defend its national title against tough odds. The favorites will be Columbia—which took the women’s Ivy League title and shared the men’s crown—Notre Dame, St. John?...
...only one of its starting attackmen this year.The Crimson’s leading scorer last year, senior attackman Evan Calvert, played his first game back from injury, but was “playing hurt,” according to Harvard coach Scott Anderson.“[Calvert] is a weapon that you have to think about defensively,” Anderson said. “So we thought, ‘We play him even if he was 50 percent.’” Calvert’s presence drew the Minutemen defense, allowing captain Brian Mahler...