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...reportedly in hiding in Mather-occupied River East. Orders to shoot him on sight have been issued by most of the remaining House Committees (HoCos). Calls for peace have gone unheeded. In Leverett-occupied Radcliffe today, a large group of demonstrators was dispersed by a battalion of crack riflemen, with civilian casualties estimated to be in the low hundreds. Spokespeople from the Leverett Home Ministry declined repeated requests for comment. By definition, an army is composed of two or more corps, which are made of two or more divisions. The typical division contains 10,000 to 20,000 men. Thus...
...ground could quickly force the internal collapse of Saddam's regime, just as it put the Taliban to flight. But there's a big difference between taking on Iraq's large, well-equipped and relatively modern army defending its own towns and cities and fighting the Taliban's ragged riflemen on their Toyota pickups. Nor is there a battle-tested Northern Alliance equivalent already in the field able to take and hold territory from Saddam's forces. And the Taliban had no access to chemical or biological weapons. Whatever their differences over tactics, Washington's factions agree that once...
...began with Palestinian attacks. Likewise, even splitting the difference between Screaming Elian and Smiling Elian briefly changed the question from Whose child is this? to Did the Feds go too far? As long as images hold this power to shape debate, photographers' shots will continue to fly alongside the riflemen's, because every photograph tells the truth, except for the other...
...Golden family disagree. They blame Mitchell for dragging Andrew into a vengeful plot that culminated in Tuesday?s shooting at the Arkansas school. The Johnson family blame television. Neither can quite connect the children who loved bowling, computer games and music with the camouflaged riflemen who hid in the woods and then gunned down four of their classmates and one of their teachers in cold blood...
Meanwhile, the plight of Yellowstone's buffalo only gets worse. As riflemen dispatched more than 50 animals last week, hundreds of others, weak from hunger, lumbered through the thick drifts trying to stave off starvation by chewing on whatever bark and pine needles they could reach. Some good will is coming from the situation, however. Meat from the slain animals, properly treated, is being distributed to needy Indians and other groups...