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...Spann's body, recovered by a special-operations squad, had been booby-trapped; a grenade had been hidden under the corpse of a Taliban fighter that lay on top of the American. As late as Thursday, those removing bodies were still taking fire from Taliban fighters who had somehow survived in the basements underneath the fort. On Saturday the basements were flooded; Northern Alliance observers expected perhaps five or six surviving Taliban to come out. In fact, at 11 a.m. no fewer than 86 filthy and hungry prisoners emerged; they were given bananas, apples and pomegranates, clothing and shoes. Three...
...Somehow in the last three to four years the relationship took a southward turn,” Born says...
There is this idea among people who make great movies that these masterpieces can somehow be improved. Like all movies, these great ones were made under undue amounts of stress, there were heartbreaking compromises between director and studio, the script was tragically trimmed to get the running time within the realm of marketability. (When Titanic opened in December of 1997, the running time was listed as 2:78 instead of 3:18. People, apparently, were fooled.) Filmmakers ruefully remember the havoc of making the great movie, how if only they had a little more time or a little more money...
...history—too many teams to recount here—suggests he was basically a professional from the very beginning, even if somehow playing in all those leagues and farm systems wasn’t quite a violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules. Often athletes have the good sense to quit varsity teams yet stay in school, because they are properly grateful to have the chance to study here. Yet this student has chosen to leave Harvard practically as soon as he arrived, which says only that he was never serious about education to begin with. Maybe...
...then the hijackers weren’t truly operating in complete secrecy. The idea of terrorists in our midst, going about their evil under our very noses with no one aware of their sinister intentions, is terrifying: how can you thwart terrorists camouflaged as suburbanites? A foreseen disaster is somehow more manageable...