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...been ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad, and fell into a ferocious firefight. "It was like the entire city was shooting at us," Batchelor says, pacing around the room. "I saw the guy shooting at me. He was on a rooftop, and I saw the muzzle flash. It sounds weird, but I saw the bullet. Then it hit me in the head and snapped my head back. It made me really mad." A specialist machine gunner, Batchelor shot back and watched his would-be assassin topple to his death before crumpling to the ground himself. The bullet that hit Batchelor pierced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Roads Back | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...site, www.deadpeople.info, verifies that musicians Sir Paul McCartney, B.B. King, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Jimmy Buffett, and Whitney Houston, as well as perennial acting superstar Scott Baio, all remain alive...

Author: By Sam Teller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prof Mistakenly Reported Dead | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

Maybe that worked back at Roxbury Latin, but this isn’t your four-person seminar about Fitzgerald. This is Harvard. Your TF is smarter than you are. And if you think you can fool her by dropping Weber, you are an even bigger tool than that weird bearded kid who always sleeps through section...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You’re Not Fooling Me. You’re Just Pissing Me Off! | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...hero of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is someone even younger, smarter and less hip than Foer. Oskar Schell is a weird, compulsive, deeply nerdy 9-year-old kid who lost his father in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Oskar's many obsessions include physicist Stephen Hawking, playing the tambourine, looking for mistakes in the New York Times, and inventing things: "There are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?" And so on. When Oskar discovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Master of Illumination | 3/8/2005 | See Source »

...really our dodgeball, we had none of the intricacies,” most of the “intricacies” were actually rules lifted from the recent film Dodgeball, which her son, Adams House resident Benjamin E. Click ’06 called “weird...

Author: By Nina L. Vizcarrondo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Quincy Pummels Freshmen at Dodgeball | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

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