Word: platooning
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...shootout any day.Prediction: Harvard 35, Brown 28CORNELL (1-0) VS. YALE (1-0)On paper, the almost-defending Ivy League Champion Yalies would seem to have a big advantage going into this matchup. Stud running back Mike McLeod is back for one last hurrah and the competent quarterback platoon of Brook Hart and Ryan Fodor makes one wonder how the Bulldogs ever thought starting the graduated Matt Polhemus behind center was a good idea.But Cornell is dangerous. The Big Red is fresh off a thrilling 21-20 victory over Bucknell and a healthy Luke Siwula—plus a suddenly...
...houses are no spur to getting a movie financed, so would-be satires cop out by the final reel and become the thing they started to mock. Tropic Thunder devolves from a Hollywood diatribe, in which all the participants are greedy or loony, into Rambo VII or a peppier Platoon. And Hamlet 2 turns into an MGM musical with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, where the kids put on the big show in a barn - here, a warehouse. Instead of scorched-earth satire, this is parody plain and simple, especially simple. It has no greater intent than to tease...
...early effusion of blood (which geysers out of a hole in a soldier's helmet) and guts (a wound in Speedman's stomach spills a sausage factory's worth of entrails) cues you to the objects of Stiller's burlesque: jungle war movies from Apocalypse Now to Apocalypto, from Platoon to a raft of Rambos. A key inspiration had to be Hearts of Darkness, the documentary on the catastrophic filming of Apocalypse...
...knowing that he would encounter an American convoy there that morning. "No, they are not usually there," says U.S. military spokesman Mark Cheadle, referring to the convoy from the 4th Brigade that was parked at the roadside. According to a Global Security statement obtained by TIME, the American platoon had been on its way to a military base near the airport when they were forced to pull over because a humvee was having engine trouble. It said one of the soldiers on the ground said he thought he heard gunfire and alerted the others through their headsets. The gunner...
Even if the father of seven and his two female co-workers had planned to attack a platoon of armored American humvees, it would have been a sure suicidal mission to carry it out with "small arms," as the military identified their weapons - which generally refers to rifles or handguns - on such a heavily guarded road with no escape path. It is surrounded by blast walls on either side...