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...guitar rhythms interspersed with thoughtful violin. “Pacific Theme” brilliantly infuses a simple beach-worthy melody with electronic elements, background voices and perfectly placed percussion. “Shampoo Suicide” is a haunting, writhing mass of noise that intensifies majestically, only to halt after a staggering climax. “Lover’s Spit” soars beautifully to melancholic piano. It also features the stunningly potent lyrics “All these people drinking lover’s spit / Sit around, clean their face with it.” The album?...
Driving hard against bigger defenders, switched her scoring pace into slow, but she has learned not to play into the hands of schemes used to halt the Crimson offense in its tracks. Instead, Codini reads the defense and adjusts, leading to offensive explosions such as the one at Claremont...
...brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division planned to halt west of Najaf, about 100 miles south of Baghdad; it also planned on facing some resistance from local irregulars. What it didn't expect was a rush-hour-like Iraqi attack, the road dense with enemy trucks bearing down on the brigade. "My headquarters had just rolled into the objective area when 10 pickup trucks loaded with men firing machine guns and RPG-7s came racing down the road," recalls Colonel David Perkins, commander of the 2nd Brigade. "My lead tanks blew up the first three vehicles, but the rest kept...
...Apparently our guide doesn't want us to see the towers, as he has us hightailing along in the opposite direction. "Red canyon," he shouts, calling for the jeep driver to halt. There isn't a single souvenir stand or roadside restaurant in sight. He points left, and we finally see his objective. Towering red sandstone formations soar before us in the late afternoon sun like a miniature Grand Canyon...
...along the approaches to the capital. Saddam and his generals knew they could not stop the U.S. and British forces at Iraq's borders; their game plan has been to force a bloody battle for the capital, in the hope that this would raise political pressure on Washington to halt its offensive. But, if anything, that strategy increases the incentive for U.S. commanders to accelerate their campaign...