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...worst enemy" in front of the U.S.S. Pueblo, an American spy ship captured by the North Koreans in 1968 that is still on display on the banks of the Daedong River in Pyongyang. They win school sporting contests by being the first to use a wooden sword to lop off the limbs of an effigy of a U.S. soldier. "North Koreans' loyalty to Kim Jong Il is stronger than that of Iraqis for Saddam," said Kim Sik, a former university professor in North Korea who is now living in the South...
...clear before fighting began that while it hoped to spare the lives of ordinary soldiers in the Iraqi army, since they would be needed to stabilize the country after the war, U.S. forces would seek to kill Republican Guard units that did not surrender. But the U.S. wielded its sword so deftly that relatively little carnage remained. The battlefields south of Baghdad are pocked with relatively few of the craters that would have been produced by the carpet bombing of masses of soldiers. Instead one finds blown-out tanks and other vehicles, usually standing alone...
...Double-Edged Sword...
Lithgow gained a formal, academic training in theater, learning to speak in verse, tumble and sword fight...
...Gillette and some bitter lawsuits. But Bruno Bich, Bic's chairman and chief executive, promises: "It's going to be a good fight." Round 1 will be price. Gillette is pricing its version at about ?1.50 apiece, slightly higher than Schick (known in some parts of Europe as Wilkinson Sword), while the new Bic is expected to retail at around j1 apiece. That's less than its rivals, but four times the price of its basic one-blade disposable. Focusing on a disposable razor marks a change of strategy for Gillette, which has a 70% share of the world market...