Word: chokes
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Just two miles from Pakistan's border, the Shkin firebase acts as a choke point on fighters coming out of the mountains. The 300 men at the fort have a single mission: to hunt down the enemy. They are equipped with artillery, fleets of armored humvees and a communications network that lets them call in air strikes within minutes. These days they focus too on how not to offend local sensibilities, no longer searching veiled women, for example. ("But if I find an Afghan woman who is 6 ft. 5 in."--Osama bin Laden's height--"I'm sure...
...decision, however, can be more sensitive than you might think. Those who embrace the idea in the abstract are sometimes hesitant to talk about it publicly. "When I'm asked what brought me to Texas, I just about choke," says Leanna Haar, 62. "If I admit that I left Omaha to be near my son and his family in Texas, people assume I've settled into a dotty old age, that I'm nobody except a grandma. It's weird to think of myself that way--and not true...
With just over 15 minutes remaining in the first half, Harvard (2-2) broke Maine’s defensive choke hold, squeezing the ball past defenders who had until that point—with just the lone exception—snuffed out the Crimson offense, and raced up field toward goal...
...Beijing talks are more likely to produce a protracted stalemate. Pyongyang, might continue racing ahead with its nuclear program and eventually testing a weapon. The U.S. meanwhile is instituting plans to intercept North Korean shipping on the high seas in order to choke off the export of drugs and missiles that are estimated to earn Pyongyang up to $1 billion a year. Washington is also pressing Beijing to accept the construction of large, U.S.-funded refugee camps along its border with North Korea, designed to speed the collapse of Pyongyang's regime. But the North Koreans have warned that they...
...Cuba, won't be returned to Britain for trial, despite repeated requests by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. Instead, the two will soon face American military tribunals whose due-process standards are derided almost universally throughout Europe as shameful. Among the shortcomings of the tribunals, which are designed to choke off any flow of useful information to al-Qaeda: judge and jury are replaced by panels of three to seven military officers; suspects are required to use a U.S. military lawyer; any private lawyer added to the defense team must be approved by the Pentagon, must be American, must have...