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...become a supervisor. I knew that Joey had just been made a captain, so I said, 'Yeah, Joey. I understand you've been promoted too.' He just chuckled." If this sounds like the sporadic humane contact between a German soldier and an English soldier on the Somme battlefield, it is. "It was a war," Colgan says. "And there was a professional respect for your adversary. But if it was his life or my life, hah, goodbye. We'd both be shooting. And only one of us would've walked away...
...line between the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq. That is what the incoming Spanish government has done. Though it is apparently set on withdrawing from Iraq, it will not bolt from the antiterrorism coalition. But the terrorists don't accept that distinction. For them, the key battlefield is Iraq. The thrust of their strategy is to break up the U.S.-led coalition. They live by a simple maxim: "The worse, the better...
...films, a star is hired to give the production international attention, and then the movie is made with whatever is left of the budget. This system has led to such Citizen Kane-esque opuses as Half Past Dead, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever, and the modern classic Battlefield Earth. It’s that kind of ethos that may be necessary for an auteur like Mamet to attain the status of “box office draw,” but it irreparably damages his ambition by tacking on mishmash such as this to his filmography...
...think the fool’s-gold standard has to be Battlefield Earth. It’s like watching the world’s most expensively mounted high school dinner theater play. That one’s pretty hard...
...easily enter the fray. Meanwhile, another group of sentinels, called macrophages, begin an immediate counterattack and release more chemicals, called cytokines, which signal for reinforcements. Soon, wave after wave of immune cells flood the site, destroying pathogens and damaged tissue alike - there's no carrying the wounded off the battlefield in this war. (No wonder the ancient Romans likened inflammation to being on fire...