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...high ground. We're closing in on them from everywhere we can," says an American commando named Mark, who declined to give his rank or surname. All Saturday afternoon the Ansar fighters rain down sniper and machine-gun fire from a craggy peak high above the Americans. From the flat plains about two miles below, pro-American Kurds return artillery fire...
...MITCHELL: There are two big issues. No. 1, should you have what is called a consumption base? A consumption base is what you find in the flat tax. It is implicit in the national-sales-tax proposals. The second big issue is, do you then have one rate? Then it is a question of how to design it. I would want it to have a low rate, I would want government to be smaller, and I think bringing in less revenue is the only effective means of controlling the size of government...
...film wasn't supposed to do what it did--nothing was supposed to do that. Movies were meant to stay on the screen, flat and large and colorful, gathering you up into their sweep of story and releasing you back into your life at the other end. But this movie misbehaved. Star Wars leaked out of the theater, poured off the screen. A lot of people were affected deeply by it, requiring talismans and artifacts, merchandising and sequels...
...American commando named Mark, who declines to give his rank or surname. The fire coming down from the craggy peak is torrid. Machineguns rattle from above. Ansar snipers pin down troops, their rounds pinging off rocks and buzzing past heads. In return, Kurdish artillery fires in from the flat plains about 2 miles below. Thick whistles sound uncomfortably overhead as a shell passes the Americans' position. It thwacks into the mountainside. "If we can get the blocking force in place, we can smoke them," shouts a U.S. soldier...
...swapper. "Thunder Base, Rock 7," said Mitchell. "I want you to go right a hundred, ahead a hundred, and then converge all weapons." Then leaning over to Rather, now along side in Barbarian 4: "Watch this Barbarian 4." At 10:43 am, all nine 120 mm mortar rounds fell flat on the bungalow. "YeeOww!" yelled Jones. "Yeah, yeah," smiled Mitchell. "You know I used to be a mortar...