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...never considered myself a true heavyweight when I was in college,” Rechul said. “I think I’m more in my element wrestling at 211 than at heavyweight in college...
...game opens with large asteroids tumbling languidly through space around the player's gunship; shooting one breaks it into smaller chunks, and each time a bullet hits one of those chunks it breaks into even smaller meteorites - each of which can destroy the gunship. To complicate matters, a foreign element in the form of a rival space gunship periodically charges across the screen firing at your own. That's very much like the situation in Iraq as the U.S. hurtles toward the June 30th handover: Taking care of one big problem seems only to present you with more, tougher smaller...
...Council. The indigenous insurgent challenge has grown and multiplied: U.S. troops now fight on two fronts, facing both Sunni insurgents whose number include both former Baathist officers, nationalists and Islamists, as well as Shiite fighters loyal to the militant rabble rouser Moqtada Sadr - and, of course, a foreign terrorist element whose frequent high-profile suicide attacks, such as Monday's killing of the head of the Governing Council, Izzedine Saleem, sow chaos and keep the occupation authority on the defensive. The prevailing paradox is that while the Coalition's forces may be the only effective means of guaranteeing security...
...overreaction? Perhaps. Certainly there is an element of irrational behavior in the stock-market trembling that occurs every time the world's newest economic debutante adjusts her corset. China's $1.41 trillion economy is, after all, only the world's sixth largest (one-eighth the size of the U.S.'s and less than half of Japan's). But China's voracious demand for the world's raw materials and its burgeoning consumer markets means that the country has taken on outsized importance as an engine of global economic growth. Since 1995, China's GDP has doubled and its imports have...
...collaboration between Swift and Corbin in the oversight of PBH is the most unanticipated element of the report and will lead to an overall shift in the setup of the College’s public service system...