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...After the Desert One debacle in 1980, the Pentagon planned in considerable detail a second operation, code-named Honey Badger, to rescue the Americans held in the Tehran embassy; it was never carried out because of inadequate intelligence...
...nuclear-armed cruisers and 180 combat aircraft. On any given day, 25 to 30 Soviet ships are docked at Cam Ranh Bay, just 870 nautical miles from the U.S. bases in the Philippines. At an adjacent airfield is a squadron of 24 Soviet combat aircraft, including 18 TU-16 Badger reconnaissance jets...
...music." Francis (Francois Cluzet), a commercial illustrator who worships Turner's artistry, wants to change that. The mousy Frenchman is thrilled to be spoken to, listened to, used by his idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight to free Turner from the embrace of asylums, badger his ex-wife for money to support the musician, leave his young daughter at home alone till dawn so he can listen to an old master in a smoky nightclub. For the French, love is l'amour fou. Francis is wise enough to love Turner and mad enough to let this...
...year-old "real Derby" at Epsom Downs next month. Broad Brush, an affable bay who likes to be taken on joyrides in his trainer's van, came third. All around, it was a happy day for practically everyone but the 1-2 favorites Snow Chief and Badger Land, who finished eleventh and fifth. By the Dosage Index, a perplexing pedigree calibrator much under discussion these days, Snow Chief's fate had been foretold. But the betting public ignored the arithmetic and forgot the old man. Sentimentalists collected $37.40 for $2 on Willie...
...These people prey on the anxiety of law school applicants," Badger said of cram course educators...