Word: alpha
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...Jackson makes clear in the book, the interpersonal triangle that connected him, Bryant and center Shaquille O'Neal fell apart. Bryant was consumed with being Los Angeles' alpha Laker and saw any Shaq gain as his loss. It was office politics at a whole other level. "These two guys had to be on the same wavelength," Jackson tells TIME. "I don't think there's anything particularly that kept Kobe from throwing the ball into Shaq. But the opportunity for them to play together--give, go screen, roll--was never really fleshed out. So I thought it kept us from...
...they hunkered down in the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf. Although fighting continued throughout the afternoon and sporadically into Friday night, the enemy simply seemed to evaporate afterward. "By about [2:00 p.m.] they realized what they were up against and withdrew," says Captain Jim Pangelinan, who led his Alpha Company of the 1/14 into the western edge of the city. Withdrawing, however, can be the most confounding thing the insurgents...
...characterization of Lenny in the context of the film is important here. He has a domineering, alpha-male father (naturally voiced by Robert De Niro), a moronic brother who behaves like a compulsive frat boy and eats anything that moves and in addition he identifies himself as a vegetarian, a lover of all things living, and as “different from other sharks.” Sharks in the world of Shark Tale are the patriarchal keepers of the sea, the top of the food chain. Lenny’s refusal to kill and be “like...
...call it ‘Following Jesus 101,’” says Middaugh-Mote, who just became the co-leader of the organization’s “Alpha Course” discussion group. “This is what’s practical, not just lofty ideas...
...pouring into the surrounding area. To avoid being overwhelmed by narcotic gas like their comrades had been in the October 2002 Moscow theater siege--in which 41 terrorists and 129 hostages died--the rebels quickly smashed the school's windows. After reviewing the situation, an officer from the secretive Alpha antiterrorist unit told a senior Beslan legal figure that the Moscow theater siege "was a kindergarten compared to this...