Word: speared
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Admit it -- You miss the cold war. It was a roughly symmetrical duel, a face-off between two nuclear powers. The battle against terrorism is more like a free-for-all in a gladiator movie--spear vs. net, triton vs. tiger. We land our troops with guns. They board our trains with backpacks...
...wanted the view from men who had been on the tip of the spear, and we got it," said John Ullyot, a Warner spokesman who declined to comment on what was said at the meeting but confirmed that some Capitol Hill staff members were also present. According to two sources with knowledge of the meeting, the Army and Marine officers were blunt. In contrast to the Pentagon's stock answer that there are enough troops on the ground in Iraq, the commanders said that they not only needed more manpower but also had repeatedly asked for it. Indeed, military sources...
...lapped on a restart, had played chicken with him, nearly causing a crash. The fact is, Stewart's mouth doesn't have a brake. He is incapable of being anything but candid. The last time something like that happened, he crossed the finish line, then tried to spear a rival with his car as if the guy were a postrace hors d'oeuvre. "Tony wears it on his sleeve," says NBC's NASCAR expert and fellow driver Wally Dallenbach, who applauds Stewart's passion. "We have enough robots in this business...
...while networks are flourishing, some cool hunters prefer to do the digging themselves. Roaming the streets of Copenhagen last June, Josh Spear, 21, repeatedly hit the jackpot. Looking for quirky, undiscovered gems, the cool-hunting blogger from Boulder, Colo., stumbled upon a renovated downtown hotel whose 61 rooms had been customized by 21 street artists from around the world. He also found-and blogged about on his site, joshspear.com-a chic shop called WoodWood that featured a wall of limited-edition sneakers. He says too many of today's cool hunters simply sift through blog posts, collecting other people...
What's next for those who want to be ahead of the curve? For Spear, one goal is to cut through the clutter of blogorrhea to create an all encompassing digital destination for people with discerning taste. "We're sick of mediocrity," he says, speaking for his cool-loving friends and colleagues. To sort through the growing mass of trendy tidbits, he's working with an international team of experts on a shopping, travel and socializing site called charlesandmarie.com, billed as the Web's first "lifestyle navigator" for lovers of all things cool. "Cities around the world are starting...