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Despite the crush, customers agree that Enormous Room is worth the wait. “This place bleeds atmosphere,” Trevor J. Walsh ’06 says approvingly. Harvard Dental School student Eric T. Swanson was impressed on his first visit to Enormous Room. “It really blends ethnic flavor in a way that makes it a relaxed and intimate environment,” he says. Though Enormous Room can’t claim to offer a tremendous amount of options, the two choices on the menu (regular and vegetarian) are equally delicious. When Strack...
...Central Command field headquarters in Qatar, were considering slowing the pace of the ground war. The initial U.S. strategy was to bypass most cities in southern Iraq and rush ground forces to Baghdad within days of the war's start; military officials believe that once U.S. forces crush the Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard forces protecting the city, Saddam's hold on power will crumble. But the decision to leave the southern cities unsecured has proved costly, as Fedayeen and Republican Guard troops dispatched to the south waited for U.S. armor to roll by before ambushing lightly armed supply...
...Paul died, Ansar and its allies were supposed to be on the defensive. The U.S., which believes the group has ties to al-Qaeda, had set out to crush its stronghold in the mountains near Iran. For more than two hours that morning, Ansar had been hit by what a Kurdish combat commander described as "a cocktail of Tomahawk and cruise missiles." As many as 40 missiles rained down over the snowy Shinerwe Mountain from U.S. warships in the Red Sea, killing dozens and destroying an ammunition dump and a string of the terrorists' forward bunkers...
...make it easier to push Saddam and his defenders into Baghdad. The Kurds have virtual autonomy in northern Iraq. In the south, U.S. troops face an uncertain reception. While Shi'ite Muslims disdain Saddam's Sunni-led government, they are also wary of a coalition that allowed Saddam to crush a 1991 Shi'ite uprising at the end of the Gulf War. The western reaches of Iraq are mostly empty desert...
...country's hottest and most controversial dangdut singer. They're rowdy, they're eager and, in clear defiance of the laws of physics, all 10,000 of them want in, now, through the soccer stadium's single narrow entrance. The snarling soldiers posted as security are helpless against this crush of sweating humanity. Somehow we all push through safely, and for a moment we pause inside the stadium, the open space disorienting after such close quarters. Then Inul swaggers on stage, packed in tight red jeans and a glittering crimson tank top. She turns her back to the audience...