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...When told of Gardner?s criticism of Kerry?s order, all of PCF-44?s other crewmen disagreed with the tough talking South Carolinian?s assessment. ?Kerry made the right command decision,? Wasser, second in command of PCF-44, maintains. ?We went into a 30 or 40 yard wide canal, suppressed enemy fire and got out of there before we were killed. You just don?t hang around to get shot at. Gardner doesn?t know what he is talking about...
...country's disorder, U.S. and Afghan officials say, has been a boon for the Taliban. The regime's leadership survived U.S. bombs in 2001, retreating to border towns in Pakistan. From there, the mullahs reconstituted their military chain of command and tasked followers to form bombmaking and sabotage cells, according to a NATO source. A senior American official says the U.S. has encountered the most resistance from resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in the Zabul province near Kandahar. Their fighters move in groups of 15 to 20 and avoid attention. Their aim: to kill anyone cooperating with U.S. forces...
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) was represented by his “Di questa cetra” from Il Parnasi confuso which exhibited Bartoli’s sublime command of mellifluous and seamless tonal transitions and passages that hovered and drifted weightlessly through her listeners, lingering hauntingly in the air. The latter half of the concert was comprised of eleven pieces by Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) drawn from La fiera di Venezia, Armida, La secchia rapita, La finta scema, La scuola de’ gelosi, Palmira, Regina di Persia, and La cifra...
Bartoli’s voice is characterized by its singularly impressive capacity for technically demanding passages of showmanship. She possesses a precision and command over every subtle fluctuation and movement of her voice that is paralleled by none. At points, Bartoli’s voice would soar in an ethereal airiness that seemed to originate from the height of her temples or the upper reaches of the back of her skull...
...intensely driven and deeply sensitive, with an extraordinary command of language,” Sullivan says. “The moral concerns this guy had were so profound...so different from what we see today...