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...rucksacks, crossing several marshy canals with chest-high water to reach their destination by dawn. They would then break into two- or three-man teams to conduct surveillance all day under the 120-degree sun with only three or four liters of water per person. Throughout, the soldiers often slept no more than 15 minutes at a time. By the fourth day, still deep in hostile territory, the ailing five-man squad consolidated and holed up in a hideout to try to get a few hours of uninterrupted rest...
...Here was a candidate that you would have thought the social conservative leadership could embrace without reservation, a fresh, appealing, Southern Baptist preacher-pol who didn't believe in evolution, whose wife (by covenant marriage, no less) has slept under bridges with homeless people, and who was more consistently pro-life than anyone in the field. So what was Paul Weyrich doing backing Romney and Pat Robertson endorsing Rudy and the National Right to Life committee supporting Thompson? "I've known Mike a long time," said Land. "I think Mike would be a fine President...
...administering hydrating IVs to each other just to stay mobile and fend off headaches. By sunup of the fourth day, the ailing group holed up in a hideout to try to get a few hours of uninterrupted sleep. Each soldier took a one hour guard roation while the others slept...
...happen. Like a football play, Republican politics in these final days before Tuesday's vote has been a chaos of flying bodies and last-minute audibles. Romney woke up in Nashville Monday, had lunch in Atlanta, refueled in Oklahoma, and then spoke at dusk in Long Beach, California. He slept on the redeye back to West Virginia, where his schedule called for about three hours in a hotel Tuesday morning before he had to speak again to another cheering crowd. His chief rival and confirmed nemesis, John McCain, toured Romney's backyard in Boston, before heading on to New York...
Faiz Mohammed slept through the first gunshots, but the second series of blasts, coming from a neighbor's house, sent him running outside in time to see the gate of his compound blown off its hinges. Australian soldiers seized the 50-year-old farmer, pushed him to the ground and handcuffed him. After two hours they photographed him and let him go. "I was freezing cold, I was terrified," he says...