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...told that the operation on the ridge will take "just several hours" and they need to haul only their weapons and ammo onto the Chinooks. But like many missions, this one doesn't go according to plan. The first night, Delta Company's men are spectators. Once special forces pin down the Taliban, A-10 Thunderbolts light up the canyon with a barrage from their Gatling guns and several 500-lb. bombs. At about 2 a.m., an Apache helicopter roars overhead, dumps out a body bag and clatters away. It takes a while before one of the soldiers dares...
...though in its most common form the cost is wrapped up in our tuition check. LexisNexis (where determined Harvard politicos can still, incidentally, read Krugman’s columns), the Oxford English Dictionary, a whole bunch of e-journals, and our academic records all live behind the ugly yellow PIN Authentication page for a variety of copyright- and privacy-related reasons...
...grim totalitarian atmosphere. One panel imitates a Sunday comics puzzle, depicting a police lineup of ordinary-looking North Korean citizens with the quiz, "Which one is the spy?" The answer, upside down, reads, "No. 6 because he is not wearing his official Kim Il-Sung or Kim Jong-Il pin...
...COLO. Name: Food & Wine Classic Dates: June 16-18, '06 Registration begins in November for three days of seminars, tastings, cooking classes and reserve-wine sippings with master sommelier Andrea Immer Robinson, cheese expert Laura Werlin and chefs José Andrés, Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Wolfgang Puck, Jacques Pépin...
...network term for youthful gorgeousness--Foxilicious enough. Laurie arrived on the lot in the spring of 2004 for his final auditions wielding an umbrella as a stand-in cane and wearing a button that said SEXY, given to him by his daughter. At the time, he wore the pin with a wink. "I didn't know House was the lead," Laurie says. "At one point Singer said, 'You do realize this show is kind of about House?'" Now that House has been nominated for five Emmys and Laurie has appeared on the cover of TV Guide as TV'S SEXIEST...