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...kind. "He takes the full risk, but then he shows he can correct his mistakes," Giger says. "That's his strength." Raised on a mountainside in Franconia, New Hampshire, Miller was home schooled until he was 8 and as a young boy spent every day on nearby Cannon Mountain. Miller was experimenting with different techniques in 1996 when a representative from ski manufacturer K2 handed him a pair of the new hourglass-shaped "side-cut" skis. At the Junior Olympics a week later, he was the first to use them. He won the Super-G and giant slalom - two speed...
...fire, forcing Bellavia's men to scramble out of the house as shards of glass peppered them and bullets ricocheted off the gates of the courtyard. Bellavia yelled for a Bradley armored fighting vehicle to get "up here now!" The Bradley drew along the gate and poured 25-mm-cannon and M-240 machine-gun fire into the house, blasting a shower of concrete chips and luminescent sparks...
...Platoon is dubbed, found countless bombs, plus doors booby trapped and walls set with explosives. The enemy tactic accounted for the soldiers' unforgiving approach to entering buildings, traversing streets and tackling even lone snipers: if it looks suspicious or shoots at you, blow it up with a grenade, a cannon or the main gun of a tank. The U.S. didn't plan on taking any chances...
...breach the mosque and allow Iraqi Intervention Forces to search it, the U.S. employed a Bradley to smash the compound's walls after 25-mm cannon rounds failed to dent its iron gates. The Wolf Pack searched and secured a three-story building, taking a high spot overlooking the mosque and its minaret. At night it almost felt safe inside, but daylight brought the snipers and insurgent cells out into the streets. The attack started in the east but was soon joined by shooting from the north. From three edges of the roof, the soldiers fired at the insurgents...
Simple, unchallenging procedurals and self-contained dramas were standard fare about 30 years ago--think of Cannon, Columbo and Fantasy Island. That began to change, in part because of prime-time soaps like Dallas but especially because of one show, Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues, which debuted on NBC in January 1981. Hill Street told stories, unfolding over several episodes and even years, that were about more than the caper of the week. They were about politics, cops' psychology and the social and racial contexts of crime and law. Demanding a greater commitment from viewers, the show delivered...