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...blown off by a landmine during Saddam's first folly, the eight-year war with Iran. "For years, he would wake up in the morning and fall out of his bed because he thought he still had the leg," Abu Mohammed said. Saddam had become a ghost limb for Iraqis, he added. "He isn't in my head, but sometimes I think I can feel...
...already cultivated a deep love of the city’s nooks and crannies, and saw the potential in bringing the “Project Runway” approach to another medium.Her first step was to gather capable friends who would be willing to go out on a limb to get the magazine started. Jenny A. Skelton ’08 came on as business manager, having worked with Matthews on the Harvard yearbook, and has become what Matthews calls her “number two” on the magazine.Both of them say they had some experience with...
...gesture of “l’art pour l’art.”In this case, the game is already so well-hyped—preorder sales alone were rumored to reach $100 million—that Microsoft can afford to go out on a limb with the ad. “Gears” has been designed from the ground up as a “cinematic” game.Designer Cliff Bleszinski refers to the game’s central aesthetic as “destroyed beauty,” and claims in an online...
...upstart, party-switching late entry into the race; Allen was being crowned before the race had even begun. In the middle of a mandatory paragraph allowing that Allen might not win, Norfolk's Virginian-Pilot didn't - in April 2006 - think they were going out on much of a limb in calling Allen's victory a foregone conclusion: "not when the officeholder is so full of vitality as to have a legitimate shot at a presidential nomination two years down the road. Not when he starts with at least a 14:1 fundraising advantage. And not when he so clearly...
Plus, while The Crimson does get door-dropped to all undergrads at Harvard, I’m going to go out on a limb and say it doesn’t have much change-the-world potential on a global scale. All I can be sure of ultimately remains within the domains of my personal life—I had a fun weekend, I learned a lot, and I’m thankful for the experience. End of sentence. I remain skeptical about whether the knowledge of Scotland’s Fresh Talent initiative will suddenly inspire Harvard students...