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...turned out, it was doable--whether money mattered or not. Seven days later, at 2:45 p.m., on a cold, quiet Saturday in Washington, an aide interrupted Rumsfeld in his Pentagon office with word that U.S. Central Command boss General John Abizaid was on the phone from Qatar. Rumsfeld took the call standing at his desk and learned that Saddam was in captivity. Rumsfeld had no advance notice of the raid; he had devoted more than two hours that morning to discussing how to retool the military for the 21st century with the Joint Chiefs, eaten a quick lunch...
...started out like so many others for U.S. counterinsurgency forces in Afghanistan: monitoring the airwaves for enemy communications. From the southeastern part of the country, the U.S. picked up a signal from the phone of a small-time Taliban commander, Mullah Wazir, whose band was suspected of ambushing road crews in an effort to halt reconstruction of the pitted Kabul-to-Kandahar highway. When Wazir's phone flickered to life, the U.S. traced it to a mud-walled fortress near the town of Ghazni. The U.S. command at Bagram air base outside Kabul quickly dispatched an A-10 Warthog fighter...
...urgent letter from the woman he left behind reaches the Civil War soldier ailing in a fetid hospital. "If you are fighting, stop fighting," Ada writes. "If you are marching, stop marching. Come back to me." The command has a moral authority that overrules any that General Lee could issue, and Inman must follow it. For the ultimate goal of many a warrior is to get home to his woman--to lay down his arms and find comfort in hers...
...must first focus inwardly; in the words of Funakoshi: “First of all, know yourself, then know others.” With history’s greatest, ranging from Shakespeare to the Buddha, from Socrates to Gandhi, imploring us to yield to the age-old Delphic command, “know thyself,” the time is ripe for students to cease rattling off the negatives of a creative writing concentration’s “navel-gazing” and recognize the veritas it offers...
Kate Davis exhibited a strong command of the stage as the vengeful goddess Athena; so did Andres X. Lopez, explosive and powerful in the title role. Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06 contributed a convincing and heartfelt Tekmessa, adding an emotional richness and color that the play couldn’t have done without. Matthew Roop-Kharasch’s Teukros was solidly acted and sensitive in its attention to the rest of the cast. Director Brian R. Fairley ’05 put in delightfully sleazy and callous appearances as Menelaos and Agamemnon, providing necessary comic contrast...