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...logistics, supplies and technology. If, like me, you listened to General Tommy Franks and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld blather on about their "plan" during the Iraq war and wondered what such a thing might look like, then you should read Appendix III of Hunt's book, which in nine crisp pages ("Memorandum: Basis for Planning") shows why good soldiers are not - cannot be - fools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Window on a Lost World | 5/28/2003 | See Source »

...brain-crunching power chords, curdling screams and angst to keep the band's core audience blissfully alienated. Minerva, the first single, is a churning semiballad about a failed relationship that, with minimal allegorization, could also be addressed to the kids in the pit. With his voice floating over a crisp hurricane of guitar, Moreno sings, "I get all numb/We're the same numb/And it brings our knees to the earth." It's not subtle, but then it doesn't objectify anybody, and it has a winner of a hook. That is probably the most we can ask of nu-metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound And Some Fury | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...brain-crunching power chords, curdling screams and angst to keep the band's core audience blissfully alienated. Minerva, the first single, is a churning semiballad about a failed relationship that, with minimal allegorization, could also be addressed to the kids in the pit. With his voice floating over a crisp hurricane of guitar, Moreno sings, "I get all numb/ We're the same numb/ And it brings our knees to the earth." It's not subtle, but then it doesn't objectify anybody, and it has a winner of a hook. That is probably the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound And Some Fury | 5/25/2003 | See Source »

...ceremony began promptly at 10 a.m. with a procession across Kirkland Street and into the packed theater. Led by the honor guards of five departments accompanied by the Boston Police Gaelic pipes and drums, the 51 graduates of the 10th Municipal Police Officers Class (MPOC) marched in a crisp military formation, executing crisp turns with their backs ramrod straight and their white-gloved hands moving in rhythmic synchrony...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HUPD Welcomes Nine Recruits in Police Academy Graduation Ceremony | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

...disorganized sprint,” captain Nick Blannin said. “We hadn’t prepared sprinting and weren’t as crisp as we needed...

Author: By Jane V. Evans, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 1 M. Lightweights Upset By Half-Second | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

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