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...crowd after a protester shot a soldier. Six people were killed. It is not surprising, then, that discussions about domestic politics with the drivers usually end with the often-heard Arabic phrase, “Yel’aan hal-balad,” or “Damn this country...
...Read the book, damn it,” Lehane said. “Come on, Daddy needs a new pair of shoes...
...Damn it, religion is so beautiful. It's not just the beauty in the stained glass of churches, the golden domes of mosques or the embroidered Torah scrolls. It's in the faces of believers, illuminated by a mix of comfort and ecstasy. They are seeing into another world. They belong...
...their ability to get at the "anti-Iraqi forces"--military shorthand for homegrown insurgents and foreign terrorists. "The enemy will still feel our breath on his neck," says Major General Peter Chiarelli, commander of the 1st Cavalry, the armored division responsible for the security of Baghdad. "We'll make damn sure the bad guys know we're still in the neighborhood...
...benefited greatly from the colonial strife next door. Broke after its Haitian defeat--"Damn sugar, damn coffee, damn colonies!" Napoleon exclaimed--France sold a large region, 828,000 square miles, from the western banks of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, to the U.S. for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase would prove to be one of the most profitable real estate transactions ever made, nearly doubling the size of the U.S. at a cost of about 4 an acre. Alexander Hamilton said Napoleon would not have sold his claims except for the "courage and obstinate resistance [of the] black...