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...captain in 1980, Boykin vainly tried to help rescue the 53 U.S. hostages held by Iran, a secret mission that ended in flames at Desert One, killing eight U.S. servicemen. Three years later, as a major, he helped invade Grenada. In 1992, as a colonel, he led the manhunt in Colombia for drug lord Pablo Escobar. The next year he advised Attorney General Janet Reno on what kind of gas to use to end the Federal Government's standoff with a religious group in Waco, Texas. But the experience that perhaps marked him most came six months later, in October...
Just two miles from Pakistan's border, the Shkin firebase acts as a choke point on fighters coming out of the mountains. The 300 men at the fort have a single mission: to hunt down the enemy. They are equipped with artillery, fleets of armored humvees and a communications network that lets them call in air strikes within minutes. These days they focus too on how not to offend local sensibilities, no longer searching veiled women, for example. ("But if I find an Afghan woman who is 6 ft. 5 in."--Osama bin Laden's height--"I'm sure...
...mission accomplished sign, of course, was put up by the members of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln saying that their mission was accomplished." U.S. President Bush, on the banner used as a backdrop for his appearance aboard an aircraft carrier to declare the end of major combat operations in Iraq in May. His spokesman later clarified: while the Navy requested the banner, the White House made...
Harvard was looking to avenge Friday night’s loss to Cornell, and the Crimson executed its mission throughout the entire match...
...doesn't end there. The channel has another show that casts gay men as lifestyle gurus. Starting Nov. 19, Straight Dates by Gay Mates sends two gay men on a mission to find true love for a hopeful (and sometimes hopeless) single gal. The dynamic duo, Max and Michael, will pull men off the street, send them on a date with that week's Lonely Heart and watch the date from a secret room, all the better to tell the lady where she goes wrong. The idea is to bring a woman's gay best friend to the small screen...