Word: consciousnesses
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...more Marines pull a semi-conscious older man - not the boy's father - from one of the cars. His shirt soaked with blood, he's been shot in the jaw, the lower left side of his face torn apart. Lance Corporal Nathaniel Bitsui, having just tended to the boy's leg, now presses bandages against the wound and tries to get an IV into his arm as squad leaders call for an ambulance. Emitting raspy moans, the man stares beseechingly at Bitsui, who cannot get the needle into the man's collapsing veins. A Marine ambulance arrives shortly and takes...
...what might just be our VIP pass into the shitstorm?”. He has the mentality and combat skills of a commando, but the profession and body art of a hipster. Larson’s real physical courage is entirely at odds with his recurring self-conscious pose, pensively staring out from a Jeep while exaggeratedly drawing on a cigarette...
...Tango Monastery. He is the reincarnation of the monk who built the monastery 500 years ago. Nine years old but looking even younger, he peers out at me from a pair of glasses with lenses so thick I cannot see his eyes through them. I feel awkward and self-conscious, for although he is tiny, he has the composed presence of an old man. I think of my nine-year-old brother at home playing on his bike, and then of this nine-year old boy, sequestered in a house above a monastery to which the only access...
...between civilizations, as much of Europe now seems to be doing, is not a tenable position. Several of the Byzantine Emperors in the early years of the 15th century followed the long and shameful road of appeasement. They made cordial visits to Popes and Sultans alike, and made a conscious effort to avoid angering either. This strategy did not work, for the enemies the Byzantines faced, much like those we face today, were not the kind that could be easily bought off or dissuaded; their goal in life was not to be left alone but to aggressively expand and conquer...
Mark Brinkman, the EMS officer who responded to the scene at the 7-Eleven, testified yesterday that he arrived at the scene at 2 a.m., about an hour after the stabbing. He said that Colono, a lifetime Cambridge resident and father to a three-year-old daughter, was conscious but “not oriented” and not able to answer any questions...