Word: adaptation
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...assume the duties of infantrymen--patrolling streets, conducting raids, hunting insurgents and imposing order in one of the most volatile neighborhoods of Baghdad. In that respect, the platoon embodies the ways in which the 120,000 American men and women in arms serving in Iraq have had to adapt to the evolving challenges of making the country secure...
...Robert Crumb were ever to adapt Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade books, it would have something of the resonance this Tardi/Malet team has for this work. Malet's Nestor Burma, detective de choc, or ace detective, appears in multiple hardboiled volumes and has been adapted to film and television. Tardi, like Crumb, became a major comix creator during the 1970s, though unlike Crumb, he didn't have to go underground to do it. Art Spiegelman's forward to the book describes Tardi as "one of the single most influential comix artists to come out of the French adult comics revolution...
...there were ever a player who could adapt her game, that player is Ruggiero...
...currently organizing elections in Kandahar, Afghanistan--a hazardous task, as the explosion of a car bomb outside his office in November made obvious. Though unnerved, he wasn't hurt. "Things here are still very unpredictable," he says, but thanks to his life experience, "I am quick to adapt to an ever changing, even hostile, international environment...
...Some scouts wonder if Matsui can adapt to the tricky hops and nuances of the natural grass infields in the U.S. In Japan's Pacific League, where he plays, every ballpark but one has artificial turf. "American grass looks really high," says Matsui...