Word: battlefield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...America going to hell in a hot tub? No, but at the very least, in today's voyeuristic shows, love is a battlefield. Unlike, say, The Dating Game of the '60s, they're less about love connection than love disconnection. More dates go hilariously badly than well--the woman on Blind Date, for instance, who belched her way through roller-skating and drinks with a straitlaced doctor. And if the participants don't humiliate themselves sufficiently, the shows finish the job, with snide commentary from the hosts and Pop-Up Video-style graphics (a lunkish guy at a gym gets...
Americans have always been intrigued by the idea that the battlefield makes people a little crazy; it's a staple of (anti)war movies, from Paths of Glory (1957) to Born on the Fourth of July (1989). But what happened at Fort Bragg may turn out to be more mundane--and in a way sadder--since domestic violence remains a chronic problem...
There will never be just one explanation for why Andrea Floyd, Teresa Nieves, Jennifer Wright and Marilyn Griffin are dead. Even off the battlefield, military life is stressful, but men in the military have almost exactly the same rate of spousal abuse as civilians of the same age and demographic profile, according to Richard Heyman of the State University of New York. "I do think it's odd for there to be a concentration in one locale of homicides like this," says Deborah Tucker, co-chair of a Defense Department task force on domestic violence. "But if you think about...
...first battle of President George W. Bush's war on Iraq is already underway - but Washington, rather than Baghdad, is the battlefield. All summer the chatter over whether, where and how to use U.S. military force to bring down Saddam Hussein has grown increasingly urgent. Hardly a day goes by without some new battle plan being leaked to the media or some ally warning against going to war. Virtually everyone agrees the world would be a better place without Saddam. But that's about all they agree on, leaving the President's advisers and allies fiercely divided on what...
...Qaeda's cause. On a page titled "Don't Be With the Enemy Against Us," supporters are schooled in the uses of disinformation by al-Qaeda's enemies, and the consequent need for its members and supporters to shut out extraneous sources of information. "The mujahed leaders on the battlefield should be the first and last source of information." The site appears to share the Pentagon's concern to avoid any unnecessary leaks, warning that even scraps of apparently innocuous information - such as names or workplaces of fellow members - can reveal the group's plans to the enemy, and should...