Word: peak
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...wanting to condemn Watson’s acts and their philosophy. Eco-terrorism has always repelled me; using violence against humans seems an odd way to preach compassion towards animals. Moreover, many of Watson’s actions seem patently counter-productive: Icelandic support for whaling was said to peak after Watson scuttled two Icelandic whaling boats in Reykjavik’s harbor...
...Deon Meyer's latest offering, Devil's Peak, former freedom fighter Thobela Mpayipheli is on a vigilante revenge mission after his eight-year-old adopted son is gunned down. Is he the good guy or the bad guy? Kunzman reckons: "The relationship between criminals and the forces of the law is different. American and British crime fiction is largely about a society that is firmly in control, but which is momentarily imbalanced by an act of murder. In South Africa, that's wishful thinking...
...defining moment of Accelerate, and perhaps the defining moment of whatever R.E.M. goes on to become from here, takes place a few seconds into the fourth song, Hollow Man. At the band's peak, Stipe's lyrics conveyed emotions with an abstraction summed up in a line from Losing My Religion: "Oh no I've said too much." He chose his words carefully, out of a sense of privacy and poetic economy, and trusted that the tremors in his voice would convey the feelings. But the success of 1992's Everybody Hurts led to some bad habits; soon after...
...scheduled Apr. 8 and 9 report to congress on his progress in Iraq. They also come as he and Defense Secretary Robert Gates waffle over whether to withdraw five combat brigades by July, reducing troop levels down from about 158,000 to 140,000 - the pre-surge peak. If the fighting spreads to other southern cities and attacks by Shi'ite militias increase, intra-Shiite violence may be the wrench that jams the whole works of a meaningful reduction of troops...
...General Robert Haldane and his battalion from within the troops' own lines--then seemed to vanish in open terrain. After scouring the battlefield near Saigon, a soldier stumbled on an elaborately camouflaged trapdoor. Haldane's team had found the now infamous Cu Chi tunnels, a maze that at its peak went on for 155 miles (250 km) and now draws thousands of tourists every year. Haldane, who won a Silver Star for helping wounded GIs amid the sniping...