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...blood shed, and send a message of ruthless resolve that can be heard in Afghanistan's deepest caves. In that sense, it also marked a beginning. So be prepared: after two weeks of heavy, mostly accurate yet increasingly irrelevant American air strikes, the war's pace and brutality will ratchet up fast--and so will the body count...
...blood shed, and send a message of ruthless resolve that can be heard in Afghanistan's deepest caves. In that sense, it also marked a beginning. So be prepared: after two weeks of heavy, mostly accurate yet increasingly irrelevant American air strikes, the war's pace and brutality will ratchet up fast--and so will the body count...
...course, earnestness has reigned for two years running in the fictional administration of Josiah Bartlet. So it was unsurprising, if a little disappointing, to see the show's creator/writer, Aaron Sorkin, taking the grave events he was inspired by as license to ratchet up the show's already problematic preachiness to levels you couldn't reach with a 50-foot pulpit...
message across to the increasing number of guests who think that the best way to get decent service is to operate at bullhorn level and ratchet up the volume from there. "Unfortunately, as a culture we've decided the only way to get what we want is to demand it," says Terpilowski, a veteran hotelier who has run top-rated inns in a number of major cities...
...them the upstart Hot Rod ($45) and the diabolical pistol Megatron ($90-$110), has prompted importers to buy them off the shelves in Honshu and sell them to retail stores in U.S. malls. Takara, their maker, will be unleashing more in August, including Transformer F-15 Starscream and ambulance Ratchet. A new line of He-Man replicas is due to arrive in stores in October, and Hasbro is considering a direct U.S. release of Transformer replicas for next year. Who says superheroes don't live forever...