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...extremely restless and in severe pain." Hakim gave Munir stomach medicine, but it had no effect. At one point, Munir asked the flight attendant if he could lie down in the aisle next to the lavatories. She put him in a seat nearby, and Munir drifted off to sleep. Hakim subsequently returned to business class, slept, and ate breakfast. A few hours before the plane was scheduled to land in Amsterdam, the purser asked Hakim to check on Munir, who didn't appear to be breathing. The human-rights activist was dead...
...Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS) that oversee these for-profit juvenile boot camps. They clearly fill a need; about 2,500 students are enrolled in WWASPS programs. Yet in recent years, most of the schools have come under attack on charges of abuse, including food and sleep deprivation, solitary confinement, alleged beatings and the deaths of at least two children. In September the association's Mexican affiliate Casa by the Sea, near Ensenada, was abruptly shut down after local authorities investigated the school for several cases of suspected abuse, which, WWASPS president Ken Kay said, were proved...
Late that night, while waiting for the Marines to match the pace of 2-2's advance, the platoon occupied a tall house on the northern outskirts of an area code-named Queens. It gave the exhausted grunts a rare respite--an hour's sleep. At 4 a.m. they moved out and took up positions in another building. Within hours they encountered one of their most vicious confrontations yet, as insurgents riddled the rooftop with RPGs and sniper fire. The insurgents weren't intimidated even by the fury of the tanks, daring to step from behind corners to vainly...
...streets of Fallujah. The platoon has been ordered to hunt down and kill a group of insurgents hiding somewhere in a block of 12 darkened houses. It is 1:45 a.m., and the soldiers have been running from fire fight to fire fight for 48 hours straight with no sleep, fueled only by the modest pickings from their ration packs. As they searched through nine of the houses on the block, the soldiers turned up nothing. When they trudged into the 10th house, though, a trap was sprung: the insurgents had lured them in and then opened fire, forcing Bellavia...
...robbery, has tracked them down and means to nab them with a brilliant scheme. There are a few decent comic moments thanks mostly to Harrelson, who seemingly takes on the daunting task of playing himself. But the sad truth is you would be better served catching up on some sleep than finding out what happens in this mind-numbing...