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...Find a clock, and watch five seconds tick by. For allied soldiers driving tanks through the Iraqi desert, that's a generous amount of time in which to do the following: spot a vehicle through the optics system, consult the last available coordinates for all known battlefield combatants, try to identify the vehicle's type, check if it has a special panel that appears as a cold spot through a thermal sight, add it all together and decide whether the image on the screen is friend or foe. If it's the latter, the crew, under pressure to shoot before...
...diplomatic clock ran out? When did the diplomacy even begin? Threatening that war is about to start and trying to bribe nations into supporting U.S. aggression don't constitute diplomacy. Bullying is the usual name for those tactics. BARBARA BRANHAM Portland...
...Catholic family. He attended Roxbury Latin School and then Yale, graduating in 1962. After seven years at the Boston Globe, Lydon moved to New York Times’ Washington bureau, where he covered presidential campaign politics for almost a decade. He then migrated to the Ten o’Clock News on WGBH-TV in Boston, and then...
...officer was sent to Lowell House to investigate a report of a radio playing in an unoccupied room. The officer entered the room and shut off the alarm clock radio...
...Harvard couldn’t hold on. The Golden Bears scored twice to tie the game, then gained possession in the final minute. Cal ran the clock down before Julian Wu dealt Harvard a heartbreaking defeat with just 12 seconds remaining...