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...Siachen Glacier is a desolate slab of ice deep in the Karakoram mountain range of northern Kashmir. For three nights late last month, it was the scene of the bloodiest fighting between India and Pakistan since 1971, the last time the two neighbors went to war. In a statement last week, the Indian Defense Ministry confirmed that a "major battle" had taken place on the contested glacier after as many as 1,200 Pakistani troops, backed by artillery and rockets, attacked Indian positions. The Indians claim to have held their ground, losing 20 men and killing about 80 Pakistanis. Said...
...stone house in the Colorado mountains, 25 miles from Denver. His handlers preferred something more dramatic and expansive, with, of course, more room for reporters and TV crews. Caught between a rock and a hard place, the former Colorado Senator chose the rock, a picturesque stone slab in nearby Red Rocks Park...
...well and good for the time being, Michel thinks, but what he has in mind | for the boys is a larger education. Before he is through, they will all be citoyens du monde. He uncorked a bottle of vin rouge and placed a large, juicy slab of meat on the charcoal grill. He looked serene, and if there were a word to sum up why, it would have to be a French one, naturally. Debrouillardise, say. Roughly, it means to know your way around...
...grid of heavy wire. When a visitor wondered about it, Moses explained, "Leopard comes at night to take the goat." Around every Masai enk'ang is built a sturdy fence of thorn and cedar to keep the lions out. One day, walking in the forest, Moses shouldered an enormous slab of cedar to add to his boma. "The lion makes me do a lot of work," he remarked. Sometimes the barricades do not hold, and the Masai wake to the bawl and crashing of cattle as the lion struggles to carry off his beef...
Hollywood plot. Viet Nam, set in jungles without beginning or end, was a flash of episodic, aleatory explosions; it was modernism brought to war. And a new kind of war demanded a new look at the war-movie genre. Platoon fills the bill. It is a huge black slab of remembrance, chiseled in sorrow and anger -- the first Viet Nam Memorial movie...