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...That means better than Red Grange, Jim Brown, Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. Heck, Tomlinson even completed two of his three passes--both for touchdowns--and is a garish seven out of 10, with six TD tosses, in his career. With the dazzling runs, sure hands and strong arm, LT, as he is known, has created the ultimate matchup problem. He has set the new standard for what a running back can do--and with his team-first attitude, how a great athlete should comport himself. "The best way to describe LT is in four words," says former Dallas Cowboys...
...splendid stiff-arm technique--using an outstretched limb like a jousting lance to repel defenders--adds yet another dimension. To LT, the term stiff-arm is a misnomer. "You're not just sticking your arm out," says Tomlinson. "You're punching the guy." One place to pummel is the chest, which knocks back bear-hugging tacklers. Another? "Smack-dab in the face mask," he says...
...been head of Pacific Command since 2005. His choice comes as a surprise, because the Central Command has always been headed by either an Army or Marine general, and because Fallon has no direct experience in Iraq or Afghanistan. However, Bush has also picked an Iraq veteran, Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, who served there in the early stages of the war, to replace Army General George Casey as the ground commander in Iraq...
...government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, whose shaky hold on authority loosened further still after the Sadr bloc launched a boycott in November that continues. That means any decision to confront Sadr is as much political as it is tactical. "We're in the capital," says Lt. Col. James Nickolas, the commander of U.S. forces in Ghazaliya, who plans simply to hold the line against the Mahdi Army until the White House offers a new strategy. "Politics weighs a little bit more heavily...
...Lt. Sam Cartee doubts the Sunni families barricading themselves in his sector can hold out much longer. Shi'ite militants thought to be from the Mahdi Army have mounted an aggressive campaign since this summer to clear Sunnis from the northern end of Ghazaliya, a formerly posh neighborhood in western Baghdad. The cleansing push has moved steadily southward, gaining ground house by house, day by day. Cartee says Mahdi Army fighters typically give Sunni families they threaten in Ghazaliya just 24 hours to leave their homes, which are then handed to Shi'ite families. Anyone who defies the deadline risks...