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1 he (Jiromcie r TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2004

ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 56

DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Freshmen

U.S. battles

re-ignite

insurgents

dorm

in

wars

Fallujah

Dan Englander

by

by

THE CHRONICLE

Jim

Krane

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

it’s the athletes. Or the air

Maybe

Or

ditioning. counselors

condition

why

the

Randolph

mitory rivalry and

no

has been the

about

why

this

day

Marines

knowing

every

year,

a

new

the

the feud between the twin dorms in the

in

standstill last killed

a

were

in the 2004

tanks

Blackwell feud have defined dorm

versus

"'%(fittches

heart

of

dorm

a

by

can

strike

prior

years,

a

but attacks

sisted,

In

Taking

out

substances

popular

rivalry

benches

on

and

planks the

over

vandalism

have in

techniques

on

well resident

apart.

We

Kent

mostly

ground assault

area

slowly

Black-

the

trying

said, gloating.

reporter,

city,

of

the

saw

city, on

of alley-

a warren

dug

in.

warplanes pounded

the

edge, softening

to

set

located

orange

the de-

off any bombs

or

the militants.

Marines were visible on This

into

after dusk

Sunni militants have

boobytraps planted by

each

Infantry

-

tanks and

fenses and

tore

tlm first

district’s northern

been

and put honey

[Randolph’s bench],” Carolyn

Artillery,

Ist

bastion.

advanced

where

ways

offensive, U.S.

the

northeastern Askari

Jolan neighborhood,

com-

spreading sticky

benches

the

northwestern

the

troops

perthe

were

assaults this year. “We

late-night

other’s benches oil

dorm

U.S.

few and far between.

paratively

baby

healthy

insurgent

an

bench,” Blackwell resident Geoff Bass said. In

entered the

across

skirmishes

began.

starting

Humvees from

neighborhood,

at

the

defacing

after

and

Division

expflsstng

targets in

primary

as

distaste for other dorms. ‘You the

Hours

Randolph

their

Euphrates

killed

bombardment and

before the main assault

participants

April.

military spokesperson

insurgents

“Backyard Quad.” The

in-

Iraq’s

when

into the

over

and

Fallujah,

city

a

were

flipped

estimated 42

rekindles

inevitably

bar-

Mon-

for Islamic extremists who

Marines

bulldozer

that became

city

to

on

much

near

but

of residents

Campus

the

major sanctuary

Two

offensive

ground

a

troops

artillery

key insurgent strongholds

Fallujah,

year,

year’s rivalry

East

to

without

thunderous air and

seize

to

side

fought

come

dorm life,

group

day

Blackwell doryear after

on

rages

by

launched

rages

knows

worst.

Freshmen move-in

faclets

Nobody really versus

knows

one

their

backed to

U.S.

FALLUJAH, Iraq

NEAR

first-year advisory

maybe

loath other dorms.

con-

at

rooftops

a

U.S.

explosions

in Jolan.

camp

near

lighting

up

PATRICK BAZ/,

SEE DORMS

ON PAGE

U.S.

5

Army soldiers

frisk

an

Iraqi

Mozilla: The by

Jack

Tag

At

the

Office

Technology Perkins Oliveira dents the not

Oliveira will

was

seeing

junior

among

browsing

of any

a

the

cluster

in

Alexandra many

stu-

the Internet. Unlike

students, pop-up

because she

la Firefox,

Information

computing

Library,

majority

ments

of

free

was

Microsoft Internet

to

er

THE CHRONICLE

she

was

use

Firefox

after

Mozilla

“open

milestone in

using

Mozil-

when

9,

of the

project”

source

the

version

of

development

more

a

and

efficiently better

said Ben

more

quickly

browsing experience,” lead

Goodger,

give

engineer

of

said

been available of the

Mozilla

to

the

project is

project

of Firefox

public

in

Sept.

since the

a

by

the

not-for-profit

be

can

downloaded

http://www.getfirefox.com stallation takes

only

“The

transition

less,”

Goodger

all

Sarah

to

a

of your favorites

at

in-

few minutes.

Firefox

said.

and

is

“Firefox and

pain-

pro-

Technology

Services

a

to

differchoice

information

for

Academic

OIT.

at

Mac OS

X computers

in Duke clusters, Internet Explorer is not even

“OFT

available took

the

as

an

step

Firefox when it became Internet

Explorer

nearing would on

OIT

running

be lab

OS

a

of

by

installing

apparent

for Mac,

the end of its

not

option.

a

no

Microsoft and

support

reliable choice

Macintosh

X,”

that

tool

cycle,

to

have

computers

Roberts said.

Students

grabs

passwords

Explorer?

preferences,”

own

Roberts,

Apple

to

explore

and make

analyst

longer developed

corporation. Firefox

their

to

technology

2002. The

supported

Mozilla Foundation,

have

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browsers in order

chance

a

on

all

important

was

two

functionality

On

Preview releases

least

users

based

Firefox.

start

at

ent

“Firefox lets you browse the web

for

“We felt it vide

ON

clusters.

computing

re-

1.0, marking

IRAQ

release

preview

is available in

version 0.93

SEE

Explorer.”

Firefox

Currently,

to

this Internet browser.

advertise-

alternative brows-

Nov.

leases Firefox version a

have

Fallujah Monday.

Internet

from Internet

Explorer.

release

preview

a

the outskirts of the Sunni Muslim city of

next

longer

no

man on

SEE MOZILLA

ON PAGE

4

study Monday night

at

Perkins

where Mozilla Firefox is loaded on the

Libary's computer cluster,

Apple

Mac OS X machines.


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