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...campaign shifts to ground operations by special forces. U.S. commandos staging from bases in Pakistani territory have already faced mortal danger. When two Chinook helicopters landed at the Panjgur airport in southern Pakistan after retrieving a downed U.S. chopper, aviation sources tell TIME, they were met with a swarm of bullets from pro-Taliban, Pakistani irregulars who were guarding the airport. The Chinooks returned fire for several minutes before roaring off. The ambush was extinguished by Pakistani military forces...
...campaign shifts to ground operations by special forces. U.S. commandos staging from bases in Pakistani territory have already faced mortal danger. When two Chinook helicopters landed at the Panjgur airport in southern Pakistan after retrieving a downed U.S. chopper, aviation sources tell TIME, they were met with a swarm of bullets from pro-Taliban, Pakistani irregulars who were guarding the airport. The Chinooks returned fire for several minutes before roaring off. The ambush was extinguished by Pakistani military forces...
People talk about community a lot at Harvard and, judging by the swarm of social, ethnic and cultural groups that abound on campus, people work pretty hard at it too. It’s hard: 6,000 overworked, underslept and self-opinionated Harvard kids just don’t seem to be very good at hanging out together, at least not without considerable alcoholic lubrication and a name to put over the door and on the invitations...
Although everyone from Johnston Gate abandoned ship at Currier House, a rowdy swarm of 21 jocks piled in to make up for the loss. They wore their hats and visors backwards as they moved loudly toward the back, slapping each other’s butts along the way. They ultimately crammed into the final three rows which only have 13 seats. The sportsmen obnoxiously chanted lyrics from popular music: “Let me ride that donkey,” “Throw yo hands up at me,” and “Get krunked...
...longtime pacifist, I have always deplored our tendency to dehumanize and demonize our adversaries. Not this time. By savagely slaughtering thousands of innocent people, the terrorists have forfeited their membership in civilized society and deserve the same regard a bug zapper shows a swarm of stinging insects. RICK ANSORGE Macungie...