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...firing weapons and boasting of his continued primacy in the fight against the U.S. But that video itself may have been a response to growing rumors that the 38-year-old Jordanian was being marginalized within the insurgency out of concern by other leaders that his televised beheadings of helpless hostages was alienating even many Iraqis sympathetic to the insurgency, and that his strategy of mass murder of Shi'ites in the hope of provoking a civil war was a road to disaster. Even other leaders of al-Qaeda had publicly questioned some of these tactics, while some...
...reasons I wrote the Vietnam memoir A Rumor of War was to show how that kind of war can bring out a psychopathic streak in men of otherwise normal behavior and impulses. When a soldier is fighting guerrillas, he can often feel like a helpless victim. I imagine that must be especially true in Iraq with these roadside bombs. After a while, that's got to bring out a killer instinct in even the best troops. And soldiers in combat get very close to one another. That's one of the saving graces of battle, but it can work against...
...heart. But towns like Altar will unnerve even the bravest among us. A JOURNEY THROUGH HELLWhen Hurricane Stan struck Guatemala last October, De Beausset decided to take a year off from Harvard to help with relief efforts.“With all those things happening, I felt really helpless,” he says. “I felt like I couldn’t do anything at Harvard.”So De Beausset returned to his father’s shrimp farm on Guatemala’s Pacific coast. He spent his time ensuring the accountability...
...Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism, essayist Daniel Harris wrote about the tendency for "cute" to veer into a fetishization of helplessness or even the grotesque. Writing about a line of dolls from the toy company Galoob, Harris observed that most cute dolls, were they to exist in real life, would not be adorable at all, but in fact deformed and helpless, unable to walk on their stumpy, swollen legs, cursed with useless, fat fingers and with heads too large to be held up by a weak infant's neck. Science has borne out that such helplessness...
...infield single and advanced to second on Brown’s single to right.The Rams brought in freshman reliever Odalys Torres, however, and she got junior captain second basemen Julia Kidder to ground into a 5-3 double play.For most of the game, it appeared URI would be rendered helpless offensively by strong Harvard pitching. Through the first five innings, Watkins had allowed only one base runner.“Both of [our pitchers] were lose and ready to throw,” Allard said “Their stuff was working and they were on. Both of them threw...