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...forced to trade education for a warrior's life when the Soviet Union invaded the country in December 1979. In Omar's case, he left a seminary in Kandahar; his poverty-stricken parents had enrolled him there to become a cleric. Fellow mujahedin fighters remember him as a good marksman who disabled many Russian tanks with his RPG-7 rockets. He suffered several injuries in the war, including the loss of his right...
...deserves to be rated as one of the great American talents, and should have been long ago; an aesthete of unshakable integrity who looked and talked like Popeye the Sailor Man, a cigar-chomping wisecracker of diabolic humor whose curriculum vitae (timber worker, carpenter, sailor, U.S. Marine Corps marksman, acrobat, gandy dancer and voluble loner) was not, to put it mildly, of a kind normal in the art world...
Harvey was automatic from behind the arc, draining all six of his three-point shots on 9-of-11 shooting en route to a career-high 26 point effort. The 5'11 sophomore ends the season as the Crimson's second-leading scorer and most accurate marksman from beyond the arc (41.4 percent...
...would also like to mention rocker, marksman and conservative activist Ted Nugent, who, in his autobiography "God, Guns and Rock 'n' Roll" refers to himself as "Rosa Parks with a loud guitar." That's so inaccurate; everyone knows he's more like Mary Matalin with a fancy deer rifle...
...four-inch circle at 50 meters is an activity most certainly undertaken by men - oh, and the untold platoons of Nordic Amazons who could twist me into a pretzel. Now that I can handle the thing, and make a decent show of myself as a ski-borne marksman, I realize that my gun has contributed directly to an increase my self-esteem. This makes me love it even more...