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Despite the comfortable lead, the Crimson could not afford to let its guard down. As the minutes ticked away, the Engineer squad grew more anxious, playing with a little more urgency...
...calendar into BF and AF-Before Fox and After Fox. Much of what you see on TV news exists because of Fox, and not just the opinion shows. The graphics, the sound effects, the general tone of news is set by Fox. The zipper-the visual signature of the anxious too-much-information era-was first introduced by Fox on the morning of 9/11. First by moments, but in TV news, moments are everything. As with so many things, Fox was slightly quicker than its rivals to detect, and direct, the next crank of the dial in our cultural volume...
...Marines in Fallujah that we were looking for Bad Guy X, who was described as a midget. Little did I know that Fallujah was home to a small community of midgets, who banded together for support since they were considered as social outcasts. The Marines were anxious to get back to the midget colony to bring in the rest of the midget suspects, but I called off the search, figuring Bad Guy X was long gone on his short legs after seeing his companions rounded up by the giant infidels...
...Anger has been steadily rising in recent weeks between Fatah gunmen loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas militants backing Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Both sides were anxious to work out a formula that would end Western sanctions, which had choked off foreign aid and tax money to the struggling Palestinian Authority and prevented the payment of salaries to 160,000 government workers over the past five months. The embargo had been imposed after Hamas, which won the January elections, took office in March. Israel, the U.S. and Europe all consider Hamas a terrorist organization, and made ending the financial...
...wanted to hobble the democratically elected Hamas government by a series of strikes by government workers (many of whom are loyal to Fatah) demanding that a penniless Hamas government somehow pay their wages. With U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice touring the Middle East this week, Abbas was also anxious to show the unpopularity of the Hamas government, as a prelude to dissolving Haniyeh's cabinet, sources close to the president told TIME...