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...Rock is guarding swatches of desert where danger swirls like sand devils and then disappears. Sure, kids still pester the troops for candy and water. But the grownups aren't in a hospitable mood. In fact, small groups of Iraqi soldiers, many in plain clothes, are letting the heavy metal pass--70-ton M1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley troop carriers--and lying in wait for the soft-skinned, lightly armed trucks hauling fuel, food and water. Every day, the journey to Baghdad stretches ever longer as Charlie Rock and other units like it that expected to be on the front...
...game of chess dominates the show’s set, whose back wall is covered with a game board-like metal grid. The set, as Downer describes it, is “removed from reality,” and underlines Florence’s realization that “what she’s doing is basically fake.” Florence leaves Freddie Trumper for his Russian counterpart, played by Benjamin D. Margo ’04-05, who is also a Crimson editor...
...Rock is guarding swatches of desert where danger swirls like sand devils and then disappears. Sure, kids still pester the troops for candy and water. But the grownups aren't in a hospitable mood. In fact, small groups of Iraqi soldiers, many in plain clothes, are letting the heavy metal pass-70-ton M1A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley troop carriers-and lying in wait for the soft-skinned, lightly armed trucks hauling fuel, food and water...
...uniforms and weapons were not Kurdish, though the new headscarves they had wrapped around their faces were. My interpreter and I looked at each other and giggled. Americans. They were accompanying an older American in the same style of uniform who smiled vaguely as he went into the building. Metal doors clanged shut behind him. The rest of the visitor's security detail did not try to hide their identity. Half a dozen Special Forces men drove pickups into the yard, parking next to me. All wore combat gear, one a night-vision device on his helmet. They settled into...
...lucky ones, though the 55-year-old woman lying in her narrow metal bed in the pneumonia ward of Guangzhou's Nanfang Hospital doesn't look it. Ye Qitian's breath comes in ragged gasps, her gray-white hair is bedraggled, and she can only open her right eye halfway as she speaks to visitors. On a rainy afternoon last week, the Chinese housewife says she is recovering from what her doctors have identified as atypical pneumonia, a mysterious disease that has plagued southern China for months and is suspected to have erupted into the outside world in late February...