Word: snipering
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RESIGNED. CHARLES MOOSE, 49, whose steady, empathetic public appearances as leader of the investigation into the Washington-area sniper killings last October won him nationwide attention; as Montgomery County, Md., police chief; in his words, to "explore other paths in life"; in Rockville. Moose, who has a deal to publish a book on the probe, had been battling the county's ethics commission, which bans profiting from official duties...
...long and relentless as in Saving Private Ryan; copious blood and gore saturate virtually every scene. Death, ubiquitous as it is, usually comes garnished with generous amounts of melodrama. And most of the heroes are endowed with idol-caliber good looks, most notably the Wild Seven's icily gorgeous sniper Saki Sakurai, played by teen siren Natsuki Kato...
...main reason for the sudden surge in Vietnam analogies may be that U.S. troops, having deposed Saddam, find themselves facing a growing guerrilla insurgency. Soldiers are dying every other day in sniper shootings, grenade attacks and ambushes in Baghdad and cities to the north and west. And despite some initial reluctance to acknowledge the scale, U.S. officials are now admitting they're facing an organized campaign...
...evocation by Pyle and Faas of war-era Saigon and the world's "first living-room war" is brisk and familiar: the heart-stopping nosedive into Tan Son Nhut airport to avoid sniper fire; the U.S. military's "Five O'Clock Follies" briefings; as well as the discovery that TIME's chief Vietnamese reporter was a spy for the North. I read it with the nagging sense that once you've read all journalistic memoirs from 'Nam, you've still only read one (and it's called Dispatches...
...fear runs high in communities where West Nile virus first shows up, but subsides in the following years—even though the disease is still around and killing people. Similarly, humans are always more afraid of any risk when it is fraught with uncertainty. Take the D.C. sniper case of last year. A lot of intelligent people knew their personal risk of being shot was tiny. Yet many were terrified because they didn’t know who the sniper was, who he’d shoot next, where, or when...