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...Blue Platoon had been hunkered down in their battle-scarred observation post (dubbed "Hotel") in Ramadi, sniping at reconnaissance units. Then, four hours before Murtha spoke, al-Qaeda let loose an attack on all five American outposts in the city--an assault that a hardened Army sniper dubbed a mini--Tet offensive, referring to the coordinated military actions the Viet Cong launched across South Vietnam one fateful...
...With the mini-Tet raging, more than 50 rebels lobbed mortars and fired rocket-propelled grenades at the U.S. bases before they closed in under cover of machine-gun fire from virtually 360°. By the end, about the time Murtha wrapped up his press conference in Washington, coalition forces had stormed past dead insurgents to retake Ramadi's central mosque...
...insurgent video cameras rolling, al-Zarqawi's group sent a truck bomb under cover of small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades straight into their observation post. The explosion knocked the entire platoon--more than 30 troops-- unconscious. They recovered and fought back, only to be hit by the mini-Tet three months later. Until the U.S. begins a withdrawal, it's up to soldiers like those of Blue Platoon to man the bunkers. "After the truck bombing," says Gronski, "every one of them, to a man, said, 'We are not pulling out of here...
...Some of the best Seasons songs have the emotional sourness (Gaudio) set in a mini-play structure (Crewe). Stuff happens in these songs. Lives change with a hard word or an unspoken one. Wisdom arrives like a chill. And the wisdom is: not all endings are happy. You can't always get what you want, or what you need, either. Love is something you fall out of, like a plane without a parachute. So many of these songs are about an affair that has to end, because one of the players is tired of it or because society conspires against...
...first steps into new avenues," says Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Primetime Entertainment. "This is all a frontier for everybody." But whether the big new TV distribution medium ends up being iTunes or VOD or something else, the trend throughout entertainment is portability. Viewers can get pared-down mini-episodes of shows, including Desperate Housewives, on their cell phones through services including GoTV. Fox has created one-minute cell-phone offshoots of 24, and a mini-spin-off of Lost is forthcoming. Time Warner (TIME's parent company) will offer computer downloads of past Warner Bros. series like Kung...