Word: ridding
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There needs to be a switch on remote controls that will get rid of such ads. When I’m watching the game, I want the most obnoxious and abhorrent thing on the screen to be Roger Clemens, not another reminder that “Temptation Island 2” premieres in another two weeks. Believe me, FOX, I know. I know...
After carefully studying the statistics and consulting with many of the parties involved, I have come up with a modest proposal that could very well rid Harvard of her pernicious nemesis...
...terrorist network is to steamroll an entire country and punish thousands of people who hate the terrorists as much as we do. We should not delude ourselves into believing that the battlefield success in Afghanistan vindicates the administration’s view. Sure, a conventional military campaign can get rid of a nasty government, but it will not wipe out a terrorist network that operates in dozens of countries and can easily change its base of operations? Al Qa’ida is an organized crime ring, and we should fight it accordingly. If an organized crime ring...
...likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that they could get warplanes to do the dirty, risky work. Bands of local Afghan fighters?whether driven by the desire to rid their country of bin Laden or win the $25 million bounty the U.S. had placed on his head?joined U.S. special-operations forces in the pursuit. Their orders were to shoot to kill. As one Army officer told TIME, "We won't ask him if he wants to surrender...
...Then we got on to the subject of miracles. Taliban legend has it that the Prophet Mohammed came to Mullah Omar in a 1994 dream and told this simple, half-blind village cleric to rid Afghanistan of the warlords, who were nothing but thieves and debauched murders. In the early days, Afghans thought that angels rode into battle with the Taliban, hovering above their tanks and pick-up trucks. I ask if Mullah Omar has performed any miracles lately. "Sure," says Amanullah, "he's still alive, isn't he? Isn't that miracle enough, when the mightiest nation on earth...