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...want to prove ourselves against the acknowledged leaders of the league," said second-year Brown Coach John Rosenberg, a 1967 Harvard graduate. "Being able to win one and not just be close would be a plateau...
...want to prove ourselves against the acknowledged leaders of the league," he says. "We played evenly against Penn, the score was even against Yale, even if we didn't play as well. Being able to win and not just come close would be a plateau...
...wouldn't have taken the job if I didn't think it was absolutely crucial. We have to do some serious thinking, now that we've reached this plateau--where do we go from here?" said Honnet...
...Ansar camp was built by the Israeli army in 1982 on a bleak, boulder- strewn plateau in southern Lebanon to hold Palestinians taken prisoner during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. The detention center was emptied in 1983 after Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian groups arranged a prisoner exchange, but it filled up again over the past 16 months as the Shi'ites of southern Lebanon waged their own war against the occupying forces. Israeli authorities explained that although the freed prisoners were members of various terrorist organizations fighting the Israeli army, none was known to have actively participated in attacks...
During a 1966 battle on the Kontum plateau in the Central Highlands, Captain Carpenter and his infantry company were pinned down by North Vietnamese. With no retreat possible, Carpenter called down an air strike on his own position. "We might as well take some of them with us," he radioed to his battalion command post. The napalm attack injured seven of Carpenter's men, yet enabled the unit to consolidate and later withdraw. Already well known as the "Lonesome End" and captain of Army's 1959 football team, "Napalm Bill" Carpenter won a Distinguished Service Cross for his actions. Carpenter...