Word: battlefield
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...much of the time since the overthrow of President Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991, Mogadishu and much of Somalia has been ruled by clan-based warlords who laid waste the country and turned Mogadishu into an anarchic, continuous battlefield. More than 100,000 people died in the fighting in 1991-92, and when the U.N. launched a massive relief operation in April 1992, the U.S. was drawn into the conflict - at first guarding the relief, then delivering it, then attacking the warlords that were stealing it. In October 1993, in events depicted in the film Black Hawk Down, Somali militiamen...
...label is not enough,” Neuman said, adding that the process for determining who is an enemy combatant should distinguish between those who are “arrested in the United States [and] those who have never taken up arms against the United States on a foreign battlefield...
...What have been the seminal moments of your tour - moments when you thought, "This changes the battlefield...
...third portion, highlighted the extraordinary ability of co-concertmaster J. Y. “Ariel” Jeong ’07 in show-stealing solos on the violin.Jeong’s perfect pitch was especially poignant as it persisted through “TheHero’s Battlefield,” a percussion-heavy section that reintroduced the trumpets.The trumpet work was especially adept at conveying the calamity of battle in a controlled manner. The last two movements, “The Hero’s Works of Peace” and “The Hero?...
...next day’s matinee violently sick with intermittent vomiting and diarrhea,” Marshall recalls.“One orchestra member passed out during the show,” he continues. “Buckets were stationed in the wings. The Green Room looked like a battlefield, but the show went on.”A QUESTION OF ORIGINThe Crimson’s own inquiries into the origins of the group inadvertently sparked a debate that revealed a contested detail in the genesis of the group. The problem emerged in the form of two contradictory accounts...