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...bloody battle from a distance or zoom in and see the reflection in a single soldier's helmet. You will need plenty of political skill too. Playing as the head of a top Roman household--the Julii, the Bruti or the Scipii--your job is to bring barbarians to heel while solidifying your power in the Senate. Your family tree is vitally important, as all its male members are generals who rally your armies on the battlefield as well as potential Senate officeholders. Manage your provinces well, avoid the assassins, and you're on your way to being the next...
...Blair scandal first broke, Raines steered the paper to an unprecedented seven Pulitzer Prizes in 2002 for its coverage of the 9/11 attacks. But his combative demeanor and favoritism, eclipsed by the paper’s success in the aftermath of Sept. 11, became his Achilles’ heel in the Blair case and eventually led to his termination...
...Because quite frankly, that was our Achilles’ heel a year ago,” he said...
...goal early in the year of being a great third-down team,” Murphy said. “Quite frankly, that was our Achilles’ heel a year ago. It was our one big emphasis in the offseason as a coaching staff...
...data indicate that the tradition of working 30-hour shifts may be the Achilles heel of the medical education system,” said Czeisler, who is also the senior author of both studies, a title given to the head of the laboratory in which the work is conducted. “We are subjecting patients to increased hazards, impairing the ability of the interns to learn and potentially subjecting the intern to health and safety risks...