Word: armors
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Western experts doubt claims by the N.C.R. that it is funded by the Iranian exile community, contending that Saddam pays for its operations. Most of the N.L.A.'s armor and other equipment, they say, was captured from Iran toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that ended in 1988. The Massouds "are simply not a viable alternative to the current regime because of their ties to Iraq," says Eisenstadt. Clawson says the People's Mujahedin's radical-left politics is also out of step. "Their day is past," he says...
Much of science-fiction/fantasy anime is marked by charming anachronisms, such as people having swordfights in the most technologically advanced armor. Perhaps this is a Japanese attempt to have things both ways--to be technologically advanced but still maintain a soul...
...elusiveness, as both a politician and a man, would also seem to make his presidency ripe for interpretation by popular culture. So take your pick: Is the President an irresponsible party boy, as in Republican Clint Eastwood's Absolute Power, or a slow-to-anger knight in shining armor, as in Democrat Rob Reiner's The American President? Or maybe he's just a compassionate fellow who lives to minister to fatally ill kids, as in A Child's Wish, a recent TV movie on cbs. That President was played in a cameo by Bill Clinton, which made...
Despite his humanitarian nature, Da Vinci also created many machines of war. He built a predecessor of the modern tank which would allow soldiers to attack from behind a protected layer of armor...
...oratory skills to hunt down and "kill" the ideas and words of others. There is a free-market competition of ideas at play in these classes which is directed and perpetuated by a kind of intellectually Darwinist atmosphere. Those equipped with the most extensive verbal weaponry, the thickest rebuttal armor, and the necessary obsession with intellectual combat are most likely to win. Aggressiveness and at times even aggression pay large dividends. At the end of the class, one or two hunters emerge triumphant, and his or her ideas enjoy a moment in the sun of Sanders Theater, Sever Hall...