Word: shoulders
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...matter how many plaudits Bush heaped on Blair for standing "shoulder to shoulder" in the march to Baghdad, the Iraq war was an extremely tough sell for the British Prime Minister. Millions marched against the war in London; two Cabinet ministers resigned over it, and in the crucial House of Commons vote authorizing war, 138 members of Blair's Labour Party voted for an antiwar amendment, the largest rebellion in parliamentary history. Blair's tenacious battle for public opinion rested squarely on the imminent danger posed by Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. "I have never put our justification...
...assailants pelted the cars, shattered windows and rammed their staves at the passengers. Soldiers wielding guns arrived, and shots rang out. Several witnesses said Suu Kyi suffered cuts to her face, shoulder and hands from shards of glass. Others claim she was beaten with sticks. Tin Oo, her 76-year-old NLD vice chairman, was severely clubbed and may have been shot. The attackers set upon anyone without a white armband, impaling them, stripping women, splitting open skulls. When the bloodletting subsided, 40 to 80 of Suu Kyi's supporters lay dead. Soldiers carted her off, along with...
...cusp of yet another curricular review, 25 years after the creation of the Core Curriculum, Harvard College looks over its shoulder at what has been, and forward to what might...
...team’s achievements were an entirely different matter this year given the number of injuries the Crimson incurred. The 2003 squad was greatly set back by injuries, especially at the heavier weights. Junior Max Odom (157 lbs.), who reinjured the same shoulder that forced him to miss the 2001-02 season, sophomore Dan Sirotkin and 197-pounder freshman Danny Jones all suffered season-ending injuries at the start of the year. Further besetting the Crimson was the loss of Reggie Lee ’03-04 (184 lbs.), who decided to take the past year off, but will...
...hoped to topple the tyrant, restore basic services and then quickly transfer power to a government led by Iraqi exiles cultivated in Western capitals. Instead, it has quickly become clear that Washington will be forced to shoulder the bulk of the political, economic and, particularly, military burden of a long-term occupation. The political and military uncertainty on the ground has indefinitely postponed the transfer of power to an Iraqi interim government, much to the chagrin of the previously exiled groups that had been working with Washington. And whereas the Pentagon had hoped to begin withdrawing many of the approximately...