Word: helling
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...lets them call in air strikes within minutes. These days they focus too on how not to offend local sensibilities, no longer searching veiled women, for example. ("But if I find an Afghan woman who is 6 ft. 5 in."--Osama bin Laden's height--"I'm sure as hell going to have her searched," says Sergeant Vernon Story.) Soldiers are also learning to be more wary regarding tips about al-Qaeda suspects; the U.S. has often been duped into taking sides in tribal feuds...
Love is a short novel (though the flap copy reminds us, a trifle touchily, that it's still "major") with a snazzy mystery plot, some energetic sex and flashes of witty banter. ("If this wasn't hell," Christine says of her living arrangements, "it was the lobby.") But why isn't it more fun? Partly because Morrison is so interested in the play of memory and time and point of view that readers have to do a lot of homework just to figure out what's going on. Partly because, like so many master portraitists, Morrison is drawn to ugly...
...Princeton—The campus at Princeton is supposedly beautiful. At least the Princeton undergrads have some nice scenery to appreciate because they sure as hell don’t have a good hockey team to take their minds off the fact that they committed to living in New Jersey for four years of their lives...
...said ‘It’s like a blazing inferno,’” said Poage. “‘It’s as if you’re in hell...
...must be going through hell, every day, every second. He faces significant jail time if convicted of sexual assault, and it seems as though there may be substantial evidence against him. He’s already publicly admitted to committing adultery, which alone would probably be enough to severely rattle a 25-year...