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...counterinsurgency tactics in Mosul during the first year of the war, but his highly publicized effort to train the new Iraqi army in 2004 can only be considered a failure. He has successfully led soldiers in combat. And he does have his macho moments, famously challenging his soldiers to push-up contests. But he made his reputation more as a communicator and motivator than as a warrior. "He is very much a seize-the-moment sort of general," says Lieut. General Graeme Lamb, the senior British military commander in Iraq, who served with Petraeus' predecessor, General George Casey. Lamb describes...
...Hemenway staffers know, after three years of running late to class (including two all the way from distant Mather House) I had become a professional speed-walker and de facto captain of the Olympic tourist-dodging team. Although some Fabio from Harvard Law School had put my push-up total to shame, my first-place-winning laps around the Yard were fast-paced, yet all-too familiar. Walking away, albeit slowly, from the University Hall finish line, I realized I set a very challenging time to beat at the end-of-summer test. I also recognized that my approach...
...almost-Las Vegas-like glam that effectively brings the rowdy vaudeville scenes of the roaring twenties to life—black wife beaters are paired up with ties and bowler hats, bright showgirl dresses are slashed to display more flesh than fabric, and kimonos flap open to reveal push-up bras and fishnet garters. The lighting design by Hanley perfectly accompanied the mood of the show...
Instead of reality TV stars posing in bikinis and push-up bras, each week’s FM features a bizarre full-page spread of chronic masturbators and generally unattractive people acting like complete heathen lords and reenacting scenes from Gorillas in the Mist. Sometimes they are making out, which is sort of like pornography except that it tricks your genitals into thinking you have just gone swimming in Maine. Also, the photographs require no consent so they’re like that creepy—voyeur—porn that scary people...
...month and PS2 in January) may help change that. The new conditioning game is a virtual personal trainer that trades the usual gurus of home-exercise videos for a digital workout expert named Maya. Yourself!Fitness functions like an interactive workout tape. You input personal data, including height, weight, push-up proficiency and fitness interests, and Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection...