Word: repeatability
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...along the Kabul front, Taliban fighters repeat the same line with apparent conviction: they are fighting for two great champions of Islam--Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden. During a radio exchange on a front west of Kabul, a local Taliban commander told Khademudin, his childhood playmate and now the enemy commander in the area, that "bin Laden is a guest of Afghanistan who has sacrificed much for the country." Khan Jan recalls a recent radio address by Mullah Omar. "If we die, that is fine," the mullah said, "but we will never give him up." A Northern Alliance security...
...least getting way older than most people are allowed to get and still play guitar in public—has a world of benefits all its own. Who else could sing “She said, ‘You can’t repeat the past / I said, ‘What do you mean you can’t, of course you can!” and sound like he really means...
After the CDC sent out a messenger to quiet an overbearing drum noise from a neighboring room in the YWCA, three consecutive panels—each a mix of incumbents, newcomers and repeat candidates— answered a series of questions on various issues such as whether recent re-zoning had done enough for traffic control and whether the city should directly elect its mayor...
...sections are meticulously reported, offering eyewitness descriptions of four-story Soviet anthrax-fermenting tanks and behind-the-scenes accounts of the Pentagon's scramble to make enough vaccine to protect half a million Gulf War troops from an Iraqi germ attack (it fell 350,000 doses short). Other sections repeat uncritically the most alarmist anecdotes--such as the assertion, lifted from an obscure 1988 book, that the U.S. secretly sprayed American cities with mild germs to investigate the likely impact of deadly pathogens...
...Sontag really aspires to an “erotics of art,’’ can she not pen more than a couple passionate sentences in a whole volume of criticism? The few attempts at humor don’t really work; some jokes repeat themselves in different essays. And it all manages to be astonishingly devoid of gusto, even in its highest praise. In her “Letter to Borges’’ (1996)—a wise, charitable and admirable short work—she makes clear her affection for the man?...