Word: col
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...France's yellow leader's jersey, during a steep Alpine climb last Wednesday. He tumbled from 1st to 11th place, a stunning 8 minutes, 8 seconds behind the leader. He giga-gagged. Choked. Race pundits didn't just write Landis off as a contender; they hurled him off the Col du Galibier. Even Landis seemed to accept his fate. "I don't expect to win the Tour at this point," he said after the 112-mile disaster from Bourg d' Osians into the Alpine ski town of La Toussuire. All he wanted, he said, was a beer...
...Israel responded with the largest ground invasion into south Lebanon since its 2000 pullout. Dozens of targets in south Lebanon were hit, according to Col. Boaz Cohen, chief of operations for Israel's Northern Command. Targets included Hizballah positions, three to five bridges, "and more." Cohen declined to say what was included in the latter category...
...equally in the prisoners' interests to have someone die. According to Col Mike Bumgarner, who oversees the detention camps on a day-to-day basis, several prisoners have told him of a"vision, or a dream - implicitly a message from God - that if three detainees die it will attract enough attention so that they will all get out of Guantanamo." It needn't be by starvation: according to newly declassified docouments, two prisoners, one of whom was al-Shehri, tried to commit suicide on May 18 by swallowing hoarded anti-anxiety medication. Those attempts triggered a search, which in turn...
...civil war inevitable? Israeli intelligence officers interviewed by TIME seemed to think so, and it worries them. Chaos in the West Bank territories and Gaza would inevitably spill into Israel, they claim. Says Col. Yossi Daskal, former head of the anti-terror wing in Military Intelligence, "The friction can only get worse. Neither side is willing to compromise." Martin Indyk, former Assistant Secretary of State and now director of the Brookings's Saban Center for Middle East policy, points out that while Hamas and Fatah were feuding for years, "They've always stepped back from civil...
...Col. Pete Schneider, spokesman for the Louisiana National Guard, said his men were ready to help. "The Guard's been pretty busy, but if the governor decides, the Guard will make it happen. It's a mission they can do. Particularly in Louisiana, our soldiers and airmen have already been in Iraq and Afghanistan. They've been in combat very recently - not that New Orleans is a combat zone. But other professional law enforcement may be able to provide help first...