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...Fortress Britain...
...After the campaign imploded earlier this year, staffers would use the "Fortress New Hampshire" scenario to explain to reporters - as well as voters - why, after all the media carnage, fund-raising shortfalls and staff overhauls, a McCain nomination was still possible. A win in New Hampshire would undermine Mitt Romney's organization, they said, and set up a showdown in South Carolina between Rudy Giuliani and McCain, where McCain should have an advantage with social conservatives. Then a McCain victory in South Carolina would, at the very least, make it a fair fight that McCain could...
...white Turkish flag hung across streets and from balconies; cars sported flags on their trunks. This militancy has put Erdogan and his political allies in a difficult spot. His Islamist roots have earned him the distrust of the Turkish military, the old power brokers in the country and the fortress of the nation's secular traditions. America's alliance was as much with the Turkish military as it was with the civilian government, perhaps more so. Indeed, Erdogan's government strongly opposed the U.S. invasion of Iraq and did not allow Coalition forces to operate out of Turkish bases...
...infantry units developed a security plan for Fallujah that eventually carved it up into nine precincts along traditional divisions. The districts are now separated from each other by concrete barricades and Iraqi police checkpoints and watched by thousands of Iraqi police and armed neighborhood watchmen, leading to the nickname "Fortress Fallujah." "It's an unfortunate side effect of securing the city," Miller explained, reminding his Iraqi partners that the main drag through the city, which used to feed the district its lifeblood of customers and commercial traffic, is also part of the traditional "rat line" or infiltration route for insurgents...
...local church complained that the advertisement was inappropriate, and the offending bottoms were covered. Washlets have spread across the rest of Asia, too. A TIME editor reported that on a recent trip to Tibet he happened on a wonderfully toasty Japanese toilet in what he called a "truly medieval fortress town...