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...Papa" holds forth on subjects ranging from his art to his bowels. But much of the collection reads like the scoreboard of a ferocious competitor. "The 227 wounds I got from the trench mortar didn't hurt a bit at the time," he writes his parents in 1918. "We've killed 3 big bull elk-2 bucks-2 bear-an eagle and a coyote-Grouse all the time -Killed enough meat for the two guides to get married on-" The years pass the tallies mount. Noble critters are immortalized by his marksmanship in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and Africa...
...Troop to move up and try to cut off the rebels. Turning to his own men, he muttered, "They're firing away like madmen. Let's hope they'll use up all their ammunition." Lieut. Jorge, a squad commander, struggled to set up a 60-mm mortar while his men fired M79 grenade launchers at the enemy gunners. When the first mortar shell overshot its target, a taunting cry echoed from the guerrillas' hilltop position: "Come and get us, you queer cowards...
...city was devastated by mortar and automatic weapons duels. Sunlight leaks through bullet holes in the roof over an outdoor bar at the Hotel Chadian, as guests sip drinks beside an empty swimming pool. Traffic winds slowly through the rubble-strewn commercial district along Charles de Gaulle Avenue, where office buildings and foreign embassies were not so much blasted apart by heavy shelling as nibbled to bits by machine-gun fire. The most macabre reminder of the fighting is scattered along several hundred yards of a dried-up stream bed behind Habré's former headquarters: clumps of human...
...five days, mortar and rifle fire thundered all around Bulawayo (derived from a Ndebele word and broadly meaning "place of killing"). Scores of homes near the camps were damaged by rocket fire. Streams of civilians fled from the confused battle into the nearby bush or to the city center. Shops and schools remained closed in the deserted downtown areas...
...subject available to the general reader. This is not surprising since Goodman, a former magazine journalist, financial editor and investment manager, writes about economics as a lively art, not as a dismal science. Here he is pondering the Big Bang theory of real estate: "Why should bricks and mortar, wood and paint, increase in price even faster than inflation? It is because not only is the currency diminishing in its worth relative to fixed objects, but belief in the currency is diminishing even faster, at a geometric rate. Thus the conventional wisdom, that what goes up must come down...