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...Cayetano is the scion of toreros. Mehdi comes from nothing." However far Savalli has come, a glittering future isn't guaranteed. Savalli is still learning. "Mehdi is a populist, someone who uses his style to connect with the audience," says José Miguel Arruego, bullfighting critic for Mundotoro.com and El Mundo newspaper. "Aficionados who look for something more exquisite are less excited about him." At the Las Ventas fight, Alfredo Peña, a veterinarian from Madrid who regularly attends bullfights, agreed. "Bullfighting is like painting or poetry - it's an art. And though Mehdi is good...
...daily reports of violence in Iraq. On the morning of Nov. 19, 2005, a roadside bomb struck a humvee carrying Marines from Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, on a road near Haditha, a restive town in western Iraq. The bomb killed Lance Corporal Miguel (T.J.) Terrazas, 20, from El Paso, Texas. The next day a Marine communiqué from Camp Blue Diamond in Ramadi reported that Terrazas and 15 Iraqi civilians were killed by the blast and that "gunmen attacked the convoy with small-arms fire," prompting the Marines to return fire, killing eight insurgents and wounding one other...
...Battallion, 3rd Combat Brigade of the 101st Airborne. "They have the lead," he said to reporters at the second stop of the tour. But by Friday afternoon, the major targets seemed to have slipped through their fingers. Iraqi Army General Abdul Jabar says that Samarra-based insurgent leader Hamad el Taki of Mohammad?s Army was thought to be in the area, and Iraqi intelligence officers were still working to compare known voice recordings and photographs with the prisoners in custody...
...ugly and in some cases unforgivable failures of the movie's characters. I loved Crash because it is not just a story about the people of Los Angeles but also a beautiful film that shows the very real flawed and fractured lives of regular Americans. Natalia Medina Coggins El Paso, Texas, U.S. Hamas Takes the Helm Before winning the legislative elections, Hamas strategically took charge of many Palestinian educational and social-aid institutions while teaching schoolchildren hatred and continuing to advocate the destruction of Israel [Feb. 6]. The swindling ways of the previous Fatah government made it easy for Hamas...
...wake up to the minute you go to sleep, and nothing you do is ever good enough.” On Dec. 8, 2005, Wheeler was officially made an officer after graduating from the Oxford Training School in the top 10 percent of his class. Now stationed in El Paso, Texas, Wheeler is settling into a more comfortable routine. “Once you’re done for the day, you’re a civilian again,” says Wheeler of his life in El Paso. “The new freedom is nice...