Word: aimed
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...Talking shit is as much a part of playing HALO as actually playing HALO is,” explained Olugbenga T. Okusanya ’05 in one of the many pre-game e-mails the group exchanged. Despite helpful advice from the other players (“Aim for the head” from Graham and the widely advocated “Just keep shooting”), FM fails miserably. After noting the results of the match-up: “Threw grenades at self, shot self in foot, etc.,” it’s time...
...lightning drive on Baghdad to decapitate the regime and then liberate the rest of the country--Saddam has counterattacked from the outside in. He let allied forces plunge deep inside Iraq, leaving their rear and flanks ill protected so that his forces could harass and ambush them. His aim was shrewd and twofold: to pester and wear down allied forces and lure the U.S. into inflicting politically costly civilian casualties...
...supply of water, food, electricity and communications--encouraging civilians to flee the city center and leaving Saddam's soldiers and perhaps even the Iraqi leader holed up. U.S. forces would then attack targets inside the city with air strikes, long-range weapons and surgical commando raids with the aim of destroying the remnants of Saddam's power structure...
...BAGHDAD Coalition air strikes dropped larger bombs on central Baghdad and also took aim at Republican Guard targets south of the city. An explosion, possibly caused by an errant coalition bomb, was reported in a crowded market in a northern Baghdad neighborhood...
...both parents and two of three children contracted HIV. In one scene, the Mas' infant son crawls beneath the splintered wheelbarrow where his AIDS-stricken mother lies dying, her moans of pain mingling with his gurgling attempts at language. Such unexpected images are jarring in a country where censors aim never to show China's ugly side. Yet, even though "underground" films are banned on the mainland, they are being made. The state media is even unwittingly contributing to the growth of maverick documentaries. In recent years, unofficial Chinese films have been made about vagrant children, migrant workers, homosexuals...