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...brightly-colored messenger bags have replaced the classic L.L. Bean-initialed backpacks we all toted in sixth grade. And to the dismay of our scoliosis-wary vertebrae, girls today sling two-tone Harvé Chapelier bags stuffed with books and papers over one shoulder, instead of evenly distributing the load with two straps...
...about Haiti, about the causes of poverty, about all we can do to make things better—can and must get out there,” he says. “Most of what is written about why people die of AIDS or TB in Africa is a load of crap...
Last week he ran for 126 yards, shouldering the majority of the offensive load...
After an hour-long fire fight, Dan managed to load his men into the backup vehicles and speed out of the city. It was already morning, and the unit's exhaustion was compounded by the realization that the targeted suspects had got away. At 9 a.m., the convoy pulled into the base at Beit Lid. The soldiers stumbled to their barracks to sleep; after they awoke, they would spend hours reviewing how the operation went wrong. By the afternoon, Dan had moved on. "You don't always get your target. It happens," he says, dripping with sweat from a three...
...week alone, four of his men were killed and 46 were wounded in combat. That was before three more were killed at Tikrit Thursday, and more were wounded at Khaldiya. And the Bush administration is not currently expecting substantial levels of military or financial support to lighten the U.S. load. Had postwar Iraq at least offered the spectacle of grateful Iraqis cheering the U.S. as their liberators and getting on with rebuilding the country, the question of Iraq's weapons or al-Qaeda links might seem purely academic. But the mounting financial and human cost of the occupation, more than...