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...major German offensive in March 1918 don't question the war or even talk much about it. They don't make speeches about lost comrades or pine for sweethearts back home whom they may never see again. They just eat and sleep, relieve one another on guard duty and complain about the meat cutlets. They do their duty, simply because there's nothing else...
DIED. Dennis (D.J.) Johnson, 52, five-time all-star NBA guard whose speed and defensive radar propelled the Seattle SuperSonics in 1979 to their only championship, and later, with Larry Bird, pushed the Boston Celtics to four consecutive NBA finals and two championships; of a heart attack; in Austin, Texas. The man opponent Magic Johnson called the "best backcourt defender of all time" excelled in postseason games. His most famous play with Bird was in the last five seconds of Game 5 of the 1987 Eastern Conference Championship against the Detroit Pistons, in which Bird whipped Johnson the ball after...
...captain guard Jim Goffredo and forward Brian Darcy, this weekend’s games at Cornell and Columbia are the final times they will put on the Crimson and White uniforms, or any basketball uniform in a competitive environment...
...whether or not the CIA - which looked but could find no links between Saddam and al-Qaeda - should be immune from outside criticism. "The IG got this point wrong and it would be dangerous to follow his badly reasoned opinion on the issue," Feith writes on his site. "To guard against such errors, policy officials should be praised, not slapped, for challenging CIA products." He helpfully notes that the CIA got it wrong when it concluded, before the war, that Saddam's Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction...
...arrived and spoke to the reporting party who showed the officers where the odor was reportedly coming from. Officers report there was no odor of class D coming from that area. 11:25 p.m.— Caller reported smoke coming from a trash can at Leverett House Towers. Guard arrived and reported that the smoke was from a lit cigarette and they extinguished it themselves. —Jamison A. Hill