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...that morning, Ansar had been hit by what a Kurdish combat commander described as "a cocktail of Tomahawk and cruise missiles." As many as 40 missiles rained down over the snowy Shinerwe Mountain from U.S. warships in the Red Sea, killing dozens and destroying an ammunition dump and a string of the terrorists' forward bunkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With The Troops: Dispatches From The Front | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

Harvard made a run in the third, getting a goal and a string of inspired shifts from Moore—once again, the best player on the ice for either team—but even that wasn’t enough to undo its defensive transgressions...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘The Year’?—Hockey Season in Review | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...Erdogan, persuaded a 20-year-old Turkish draft dodger to surrender and release 200 hostages after hijacking an Istanbul to Ankara flight and forcing it to land in Athens. The hijacker used three razor blades and four candlesticks to commandeer the aircraft. A Greek prosecutor charged him with a string of criminal offenses; authorities did not immediately respond to Ankara's request for extradition to Turkey. Arming the Iraqis RUSSIA George W. Bush complained to Vladimir Putin about Russian firms' alleged sale of military technology to Baghdad. Antitank missiles used to knock out two American tanks in Iraq last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rugby 1, Supervirus 0 | 3/30/2003 | See Source »

...arrests of Mitchell and Barzee concluded the strange nine-month odyssey that began last summer amid a string of high-profile kidnappings that had set an already jittery nation on hyperalert. Smart's abduction was every parent's worst nightmare: she was plucked from the safety of her own bed, with a sister watching and her parents sleeping nearby. Though the 24-hour media vigil had long ago moved on, the family never gave up hope; Elizabeth's uncle Tom was even quoted in the paper on the very morning of her rescue, castigating police for slowing down the search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Missing Nine Months | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...started his talent performance by playing a banjo, but broke a string early on and instead rapped about Tennessee...

Author: By Iliana Montauk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women Sweep ‘Miss Harvard’ | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

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