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...Marines are trying to identify their enemy and hunt him down, hoping to achieve the security needed to hold elections in the Sunni triangle. Insurgents, however, their numbers estimated in the hundreds, are intimidating locals, kidnapping and killing local officials, and staging frequent hit-and-run attacks. Regiment commander Lt. Col. Randall P. Newman believes foreign fighters are coming back and forth from Fallujah, mixing with ex-Baathists and local criminals in a combined effort to keep the city unstable. "It's almost like a chess match," says Golf Company executive officer, Lt. Dennis Doyle...
With time, the embarrassing moments become less frequent and I begin to settle into Bhutanese life. I go to the vegetable market on Fridays, and take day trips on weekends. I am fortunate enough to be granted a visit with the Rinpoche (head monk) at Tango Monastery. He is the reincarnation of the monk who built the monastery 500 years ago. Nine years old but looking even younger, he peers out at me from a pair of glasses with lenses so thick I cannot see his eyes through them. I feel awkward and self-conscious, for although he is tiny...
...night before big games, claiming it increased their level of play. Half the guys participated in full contact hitting practices without the necessary pads. At college practices, our coach walked around with lit cigarettes and stuck them in our players mouths (through their helmets) during the frequent breaks their tarred lungs demanded. The head coach of our college team-—a thirty two-year-old college dropout who spent all his time at parties thrown by kids half his age and slept on our fullback’s couch—was often interrupted...
...likely candidate for less frequent updates is the China guide, said the Let’s Go official...
These tactics and others, such as the frequent issuing of needless new editions, were described in a study released early this year by the California Student Public Interest Research Group (CSPIRG), which found that the average student forfeits roughly $900 each year for textbooks. The study seriously called into question practices of publishing giants, whose drive for profit, the group says, has led to the release of ever more frequent editions of textbooks, often bundled with unessential software. According to an article in the Washington Post last Monday, “the academic-publishing industry has insulated itself from traditional...