Word: commandeering
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...often posed as questions. But these questions are sounding more and more alike. As an adviser gently put it, "Can Bush still define his presidency as leading the global war on terror? If the answer is no, does it leave him on ground that he is distinctly unable to command? That's a legitimate question...
...there were other sounds to contend with. No sooner had Perez's Chinook wheeled out of sight than the skies filled with the thunks, thuds and whistles of rocket-propelled grenades, 82-mm mortar rounds and heavy machine-gun bursts. "All hell broke loose," remembers Command Sergeant Major Frank Grippe, who was overseeing the action from a command post some 100 yards away. The U.S. troops returned fire with their short-barreled M-4 assault carbines and M-240 machine guns, but the enemy wasn't giving them much in the way of targets...
Lieut. Brad Maroyka, commander of Charlie Company's 1st Platoon, was watching his two squads fire at al-Qaeda targets from his position about 150 yards north of the command post. "We've got enemy moving up on the west side," Maroyka radioed company commander Captain Nelson Kraft, who was back near the command post. "We are destroying them, but they are returning fire...
...hang around outside Rome's Colosseum dressed as gladiators and posing for snapshots with tourists might seem to have found an easy way of making a living. No longer. The city has new rules decreeing the sesterces they'll be able to charge for saying, "On my command, unleash hell...
...Diana would have been pleased, however, to know that despite her fading prominence, her influence lives on. Princes William and Harry, both very much their mother's sons, command the same degree of public adoration Diana once knew. Adoration, one hopes, that's tinged by a sense of perspective and respect, borne out of tragedy and time...