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...wastes of Kuwait. For the more ambitious task of driving Saddam from power, Rumsfeld pushed Franks to fight with half that number, fewer troops and less armor than the general originally wanted. But the current battle plan is all part of the Defense Secretary's conviction that a more potent, smaller, higher-tech force can win in new ways. Army officers have complained throughout the planning process that Rumsfeld was relying too much on air power and wasn't calling for enough boots on the ground. "The issue isn't, was there enough," says an Army general. "The issue...
...photo, by George Strock, is mesmerizing. There is an unadorned bleakness to it that is unsettling even now, after a half-century of casual, blood-ripped Hollywood action fantasies. And it is far more potent than anything we've seen from Iraq during the first 10 days of the war. This is puzzling. We are closer to war than ever before--hardly half an hour goes by without some embedded ace breathlessly reporting, in real time, from the front. But the war we are seeing is bowdlerized, PG-rated. There are fancy explosions galore, shown from a great distance; there...
...voices and perfectly placed percussion. “Shampoo Suicide” is a haunting, writhing mass of noise that intensifies majestically, only to halt after a staggering climax. “Lover’s Spit” soars beautifully to melancholic piano. It also features the stunningly potent lyrics “All these people drinking lover’s spit / Sit around, clean their face with it.” The album’s most exquisite song, “Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl,” is deliciously mindful of its otherworldly...
Harvard lost its most potent offensive weapon when Cserny fouled out with 5:56 remaining. Without her, the Crimson was forced to rely even further on perimeter shots...
...Bears’ defense clamped down, shutting out the previously potent Harvard offense...