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...Keegan has absorbed in more than three decades of studying war, teaching military men and listening to them. Like his 1976 work The Face of Battle, his new book is alive with sudden, unexpected details and delights of knowledge -- a treatise, for example, on how to make a composite bow, that revolutionary asset of the horse warrior; a detour into the institutionalized vengeance of Maori warmaking; or a splendid interlude on the effects of geography on war, including a disquisition on why Adrianople, Edirne in modern Turkey, has been the most fought-over place in the world (it stands...
FIND A STRONG RIGHT ARM Clinton had a formidable, if unlikely, ally in Newt Gingrich, a Republican who has a reputation for shooting first and aiming later. The White House dithering led the Republican whip to fire a warning shot across the Administration's bow. Reflecting the fears of his colleagues that Clinton would blame them if NAFTA failed, Gingrich called the President's | efforts at that point "pathetic." Unless Clinton could come up with 100 Democratic votes, Gingrich said, he could not deliver the 118 Republicans needed for victory...
...acrid, urban stench of motor vehicle exhaust will be attenuated today by the sweet aroma of blossoming flowers at the corner of Bow and Plympton Streets...
...Bow Street Flowers, a new flower shop on the corner of Bow Street and Plympton street, plans to open today, according to its manager Serge Delisle...
Business will be "a little slower, but not a big deal," said one Bow and Arrow Pub employee...