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...would have been better off in a Toyota Highlander." BRIAN HART, father of Private First Class John Hart who was killed in Iraq while fighting from a humvee that lacked bulletproof armor...
...some major quest, the point of which is not easy to understand--dragon this, family honor that and so on. Whatever. You won't get bored unless leaping into the air, running along a wall, doing a somersault, tossing three shuriken (ninja throwing stars) at a guy in samurai armor and then decapitating him in one smooth motion is something you do, like, all the time. Game-play-wise, Ninja Gaiden is a neat combination of fighting and exploring, and although it's quite violent, the action is rendered in such lush detail--streaming sunlight, falling leaves, birds circling overhead...
...ready to challenge his judgment, signaling a change in the climate at the very moment the 2004 campaign was beginning for real. If the Democrats are right that a lot of voters are now more worried about getting sick or getting fired than about getting blown up, then the armor Bush has been wearing for 2 1/2 years may protect him less than it weighs him down. A Republican who travels the country sees the weaknesses in Bush's message: "Bush says the economy is getting better, and he's right, but no one feels it. And he says...
...women’s basketball team in the history of women’s college sports,” Delaney-Smith said. “They looked God-awful [Friday] night. Why? Because they lost a couple and it’s just like that little chip in the armor and it just makes you hesitate, and makes you lose just a touch of confidence and [say], ‘Maybe we’re not so great, and maybe we’re not so invincible,’ and so this is just a classic reaction to losing...
...cinema verite record of the group's tour by Albert and David Maysles, is a brisk rough sketch of A Hard Day's Night, which the boys started making later that month. Same dashing from train to limo to photo op to TV stage. Same use of wit as armor against imprisonment and ennui. And the same amazing display of grace and good humor by four blithe Liverpudlians, ages 20 to 24. Leaving their hotel room to go to the Peppermint Lounge, they wave a sweet goodbye to the two-man camera crew. Did celebrity ever take such innocent pleasure...