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...about some lunch," said McClung, popping her brown eyes wide open as she flashed me a big smile. It was an obvious effort to cheer me up, and I gratefully accepted. McClung put a cap over her straight red hair and led me to the chow hall. As we sat down to eat, she gave me an overview of the situation in Ramadi, where insurgents have control of whole swaths of the downtown area. Retaking the city, McClung explained, would not involve an assault of the kind the Marines staged against Fallujah in 2004. "We don't want to Fallujah...
...really fascinated me. I really got interested in it just by watching sports fans walk by my rented apartment in Berkeley. I was teaching there for a semester. I was watching the football fans go by on Sundays, and I couldn't help but notice that they were costumed - red for Stanford - and there were painted faces and so on. What I argue in the book is people have managed to carnivalize sports events, to turn them into occasions for feasting, costuming, masking and dancing. They literally dance in Latin American soccer stadiums, but in North America, they are more...
...Critics of The Secret, and even some fans, are bothered by its obsession with using ancient wisdom to acquire material goods. In one segment, a kid who wants a red BMX bicycle cuts out a picture in a catalog, concentrates real hard, and is rewarded with the spiffy two-wheeler. The Secret"is like having the universe as your catalog," says Joe Vitale, who is called a "metaphysician" in the film but whose website bills him as "Mr. Fire" - a marketing consultant with the power to sway consumers with a "hypno-buying trance." "The get-rich-quick parts really bothered...
...order that accompanied it, was widely welcomed on the war-torn streets of the capital. As Ethiopian troops advanced toward them, thousands of supporters of the Courts were reported to have staged rallies in Mogadishu. The Islamists are are also backed by Eritrea, the predominantly Muslim nation on the Red Sea coast that has been a historic enemy of Ethiopia. Eritrea has sent more than 2,000 troops to support the Council of Islamic Courts, according...
...Gene Autry, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Other Christmas Classics...