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...National Guard of the future," he says) with the game's Space Orks. "It's a way of acting like a kid and getting away with it," he admits. But he is a serious history buff too and has visited every mission church near San Antonio, including the Alamo. "Just don't get him talking about World War II," warns his mother...
Will it work? To get a sense of both the promise and the perils of the adviser program, just look at the base of the new Iraqi army's 303rd Battalion, in western Baghdad. Outside the gates of the compound is a repurposed Taco Bell sign that reads THE ALAMO. The 1,100 Iraqi soldiers live in a strip of two-story concrete barracks. Johnson and his men sleep in a separate part of the compound where they keep an independent operations room, but spend the rest of their time living and working side by side with the Iraqis, helping...
Competitors have tried--and failed--to break Enterprise's lock on nonairport business before. Hertz and Avis as well as Alamo retreated from expansion efforts after underestimating how difficult the local market is. While airport locations simply collect deplaning customers, local shops have to make tough decisions about where to build storefronts. National advertising spurs airport rentals, but generating neighborhood sales often requires a more personal touch, starting with national insurance companies and working all the way down to local operators like Keenan. In the late 1990s, Hertz tried to blanket the country, then pulled back when the company couldn...
...their key leadership cadre, do not, however, appear to have stood and fought. Instead, they behaved as guerrillas typically do when confronting overwhelmingly superior firepower by simply dispersing to attack elsewhere. A number stayed behind, some no doubt on promises of "martyrdom" and lionization in a kind of insurgent "Alamo" mythology. These men appear to have been mostly Iraqis - the U.S. commander in Iraq, General George Casey, said Monday that of the more than 1,000 men captured in the fight for the city, only 15 are confirmed foreign fighters...
...million Opening-weekend earnings for Disney's The Alamo, which put it in fourth place at the box office...