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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In (His) God He Trusts | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Aesthete As Popeye | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Finishes Season in Style With Sweep | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You, Sir, Are No Rosa Parks | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Is a Warm Gun on a Cold Day | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

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