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...country faces. I know several people who, by virtue of positions they have once held, have received this briefing. They have all told me it is terrifying. Second, we must remember that we cannot always wait for the smoking gun. Instead, we should remember that you never hear the bullet that kills you. If we reserve action until we are absolutely sure that the fellow pointing the gun at us is about to pull the trigger, it may be too late. That was the lesson of Sept...
When Hur Yong Chun saw his son's corpse lying on a wooden stretcher on the morning of April 3, 1984, it had two bullet holes in the chest and one in the forehead. According to a forensic expert at the army base where Hur's son was doing military service, it was a case of suicide. But Hur wondered if it was possible to shoot yourself three times with a rifle. Then Hur asked why blood around the wound on the right side of his son's chest was black and coagulated, while blood around the other two bullet...
KILLED. RODDY SCOTT, 31, intrepid British freelance journalist and cameraman who chose a hazardous career documenting neglected conflicts in such places as Sierra Leone, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ethiopia; by a bullet in the eyepiece of his camera while filming a firefight between Chechen rebels and Russian troops; in Ingushetia. Russian forces discovered Scott's body among dozens of dead Chechen rebels...
...Guide commonly features complaints about teaching fellows who are less knowledgeable about courses’ subject matter than might be hoped, more apathetic about the quality of their instruction than might be hoped or both. Certainly there is no single magic bullet capable of putting these issues once and for all to rest, but both problems are significantly exacerbated by the current FAS registration system. Because course enrollments remain largely uncertain until study cards have actually been filed, course heads and potential teaching fellows are left to coordinate staffing on the basis of guesses and probabilities. As both sides seek...
...this way: I had only one bullet, and I used it to shoot myself in the foot...