Word: hunts
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...helped in the first moments, the millions who went to the demonstrations that evening, and the people who faced down the fear of getting on the train in the days that followed. Emilio Prada Fernández Manchón Madrid In "{A Brief} History Of Heroes," author Tristram Hunt asked how our current crop of heroes measures up to the legends of the past. That's like asking whether we moderns are genuine humans compared to the superhumans of yore. One unchanging aspect of heroism is that the heroes who endure have all been overpraised by later generations. Gideon...
...were held. All five kidnappers and one Chinese hostage died; the other survived. Mehsud escaped. He's at least the third Gitmo detainee known to have rejoined his fellow Taliban fighters and sworn revenge against America. The other two were later killed by U.S. troops. Pakistani forces vow to hunt down Mehsud too. --By Tim McGirk. With reporting by Rahimullah Yusufzai
...restive towns in Anbar, Iraq's most restive province. New forces were brought in, new strategies employed. But despite clear successes, the week's record of strikes and counterstrikes suggests that if, as the young Marine said, the Americans are predators, the prey is dictating the nature of the hunt...
...Free") and Bruckheimer's costliest epic ("I miss you/ More than Michael Bay missed the mark when he made Pearl Harbor"). They keep the smiles coming until the end, when the film goes numbingly nuts and expends all its imagination on ways to kill off people like Helen Hunt and Janeane Garofalo...
...espousing "19th century values." But Carlo Giovanardi, Italy's Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and a Buttiglione ally, says a "Taliban" mentality has consumed his opponents: "We haven't seen an attack against religious freedom like this since the end of World War II. It's a new witch hunt." One of the Vatican's most outspoken Cardinals, former U.N. emissary Renato Raffaele Martino, lashed out at what he called a "new Holy Inquisition" led by a "powerful cultural, economic and political lobby ? against all that is Christian...