Word: enlisting
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...Buxton, 32, a brainy Gulf War I veteran who since being deployed has taught himself Arabic and missed the birth of a son. Specialist Bernard Talimeliyor, 24, a native of the U.S. protectorate of Yap, Micronesia, was so moved by the events of 9/11 that he decided to enlist, even though he had never seen mainland U.S. Two noncommissioned officers, Staff Sergeant Abe Winston, 42, and Sergeant David Kamont, 34, serve as mentors to the platoon's three youngest G.I.s, Private Lequine Arnold, 20, an African American from Goldsboro, N.C.; Beverly, an amateur artist from Akron, Ohio; and Jenks...
...facing an insurgency - at least in the Sunni Triangle - waged by a combination of secular nationalists (of the former Baathist regime) and militant Islamists, operating with a significant degree of support from the local population, willing to use a wide range of combat tactics and able to enlist a significant number of "shaheeds" (fighters willing to die in pursuit of martyrdom), although in Iraq some of these may be foreign jihadis. U.S. commanders don't have a clear picture of who is behind the insurgency. That fact alone is another potential reason for seeking Israeli help: Israel's massive intelligence...
...Miyamoto, Nintendo's legendary creative director and gaming deity?Miyamoto created Mario and Zelda?has been able to break the slump. Miyamoto's latest attempt to launch a revolutionary franchise was a bizarre entry called Pikmin, in which users play an astronaut stranded on a remote planet who must enlist the aid of the local aliens (who look like ambulatory onion sprouts) to rebuild his ship?all set to a country-and-western music soundtrack. Pikmin failed to take off, forcing Nintendo to rely heavily on recycled fare such as Donkey Kong, Zelda, and Pikachu and all his Pok?mon friends...
...cinematic pairing, Gigli, J. Lo's character in this March 2004 film exits early. The rest of the onscreen sparks belong to Affleck and LIV TYLER, who plays a video-store clerk. The two recorded a song together for the movie. Did the daughter of Aerosmith vocalist Steven Tyler enlist Dad's help? "I sing in a Cockney accent," she says. Apparently Dad doesn't do one. "I had to wing...
...group also enlisted the help of alumni in the arts, writing letters to prominent graduates asking them for support. They won the help of John Rockwell ’62, the former editor of The New York Times arts section, who agreed to enlist the Harvard’s Board of Overseers–of which he is a member—to influence the administration...