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...Colts' high-octane offense is now Peyton's place. "He's not opposed to jumping on somebody's butt," notes Archie. Peyton cajoles linemen constantly to pick up their blocking assignments. After a receiver drops a pass, he often looks as if someone dropped an anvil on his toes. "Guys on offense know if they want the ball, they've got to run their routes crisp all the time, and they've got to be where he expects them to be," says Colts head coach Tony Dungy of his quarterback. "So Peyton gives them a little bit of carrot...
...fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon, or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher." That passage, with its anvil-chorus cadence and utter disdain for any diminution of Christ's divinity in favor of his more mortal aspects, may not be Lewis' most subtle, but it is emblematic of his lucidity and certitude...
...From a military standpoint, the spring offensive was straightforward. Pakistani troops swept into Wazir villages while American soldiers in Afghanistan braced near the border to smash al-Qaeda fighters flushed out by the Pakistani advance?"a hammer and anvil" approach, as one U.S. general confidently called it, that never developed. Judging from the daily communiqu?s by U.S. military spokesmen in Kabul, the enemy was as elusive as ever, emerging only to ambush American patrols. One such attack led to the death of 27-year-old U.S. professional football player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman...
...which helped track down Saddam Hussein--will be reinserted for the offensive. While the U.S. pushes east along a broad front, Pakistani forces will push west, flooding the tribal areas in what Lieut. General David Barno, commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, calls a "hammer and anvil" strategy. "The idea is to come up with O.B.L. in the bargain," says a senior military official. "They are not going to say that's the goal, but it's the goal...
...building in a deep brown paint with a stucco-like surface so tough that the British use it to defend utility boxes from graffiti. It turned the house into a mammoth minimalist sculpture, a formidable box that occupies its corner lot with the weight and density of an anvil. Yet seen at close range, the paint is still translucent enough to disclose the lines where successive stages of new brickwork were added over the years, sedimentary layers of the building's history. "I want you to be able to read the story of the place," Adjaye says...