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...Favorite Song: Coldplay "Viva la Vida" Favorite Place to Eat in the Square: Spice Favorite Viral Video: Puppy Cam Favorite On-Campus Student Production: Tie: "Sweeney Todd" and "HPT 160: Fable Attraction" What should the third Batman movie be called? 1. The Batman Cometh 2. The Extended Metaphor 3. A Tree Grows in Gotham Why should you be Diamond Magazine's next cover model? 1. Sheer Yardage 2. It would be incredibly exclusive as I have not even seen myself naked 3. Because I have less chest hair. However, as a woman, I can't promise a longer dingus...
...making the statement I think that I'm making. He obviously doesn't think it's entirely dead, or he wouldn't continue to labor there - but he is concerned about it enough to put people on notice that it is in the ICU ward. It was more a metaphor than a reality. But I think that there is no question that commercial hip-hop - that is dead. But there is an incredibly rich world of hip-hop that has been literally buried. I tell my friends and students, That's why they call it the underground - because...
...some ways, Helmand province - which I visited with the German general Egon Ramms, commander of NATO's Allied Joint Force Command - is a perfect metaphor for the broader war. The soldiers from NATO's International Security Assistance Force are doing what they can against difficult odds. The language and tactics of counter-insurgency warfare are universal here: secure the population, help them build their communities. There are occasional victories: the Taliban leader of Musa Qala, in northern Helmand, switched sides and has become an effective local governor. But the incremental successes are reversible - schools are burned by the Taliban, police...
...some ways, Helmand province - which I visited with the German general Egon Ramms, commander of NATO's Allied Joint Force Command - is a perfect metaphor for the broader war. The soldiers from NATO's International Security Assistance Force are doing what they can against difficult odds. The language and tactics of counterinsurgency warfare are universal here: secure the population, help them build their communities. There are occasional victories: the Taliban leader of Musa Qala, in northern Helmand, switched sides and has become an effective local governor. But the incremental successes are reversible - schools are burned by the Taliban, police officers...
...Lodhi, however, said she took issue with the phrase “war on terror.” “There needs to be a change in rhetoric,” she said. “‘War on terror’ was a very unfortunate metaphor that must be dropped.” Lodhi said that the phrase has led to the popular perception in the Middle East that the U.S. is fighting a war on Islam. She called for a strategy that was “mutually reinforcing” of the stability of Afghanistan...