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...important dates or times or locales-claims that Kerry once threatened him with a court martial. The incident happened when Gardner, who told me he had ?no trouble shooting gooks,? saw a Viet Cong guerilla with an AK-47 in a boat and started firing. ?I lay the hammer down on him,? Gardner explains. ?I just put a finger on the gun: boom, boom, boom, boom. He?s done. He got flipped out of the boat, he went straight down. That?s when Kerry came running out of the guntub screaming ?ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire.? Then he turned...
...Task Force 121, which helped track down Saddam Hussein--will be reinserted for the offensive. While the U.S. pushes east along a broad front, Pakistani forces will push west, flooding the tribal areas in what Lieut. General David Barno, commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, calls a "hammer and anvil" strategy. "The idea is to come up with O.B.L. in the bargain," says a senior military official. "They are not going to say that's the goal, but it's the goal...
...University gears up for what will likely be the largest capital campaign in the history of higher education, top development officials have begun to hammer out a comprehensive plan for their fundraising efforts...
...Still, the outcome of the talks?which included a commitment to confer again before July and to set up a working group to hammer out an agenda beforehand?was an improvement over the last such session. The six countries met for the first time last August, but those talks ended on a belligerent note after North Korea threatened to conduct a nuclear test. Last week, according to a statement issued by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi, all parties could at least agree that they had committed themselves "to a nuclear weapons-free Korean Peninsula...
...film, though, has a strange, stately calm, an antidramatic tone that the melodramatic music tries to vivify. The Passion scenes (about 40 mins. of the 2hr.40min. film) lack wallop, especially in comparison to the hammer-on-nail-through-flesh-into wood impact of the Gibson film. The raising of Jesus' cross, a big moment in any Gospel film, is shown from above - a God- or pigeon's-eye view of the crucifixion. Count on the pictorials to keep you awake; watching the movie is like having someone thumb, slooooowly, through a book of religious art history. The film's last...