Word: take
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...Taliban and you kill two, how many do you have left? Eight, perhaps. Or there might be two, because six of the remaining eight decide it's just not worth fighting anymore. Or you might have 20 because the brothers and cousins of the two dead fighters decide to take vengeance. "When I am asked what approach we should take in Afghanistan," General Stanley McChrystal concluded, "I say humility." (See pictures of a photographer's personal journey through the war in Afghanistan...
...take-no-prisoners turn has come as a surprise to some in the press, considering the largely favorable coverage that candidate Obama received last fall and given the President's vows to lower the rhetorical temperature in Washington and not pay attention to cable hyperbole. Instead, the White House blog now issues regular denunciations of the Administration's critics, including a recent post that announced "Fox lies" and suggested that the cable network was unpatriotic for criticizing Obama's 2016 Olympics effort. (See pictures of Barack Obama's nation of hope...
...hard to awaken her fiercer instincts. "Here in the White House, you are reluctant to feel like you have to go to that place," she says. "But we have to be more aggressive rather than just sit back and defend ourselves, because they will say anything. They will take any small thing and distort it." In other words, after eight months at the White House, the days of nonpartisan harmony are long gone - it's Us against Them. And the Obama Administration is playing...
...McCain's maverick nature, Alexander flashes a smile, saying, "I can't think of any." Does that mean Republicans are at last falling in love with McCain? "John dove back in on his issues," says Senator Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican. "But I don't see him trying to take the role of de facto head of the party." (See pictures of Republican memorabilia...
...yard and, still in her pajamas, climbs the ladder to the top of the stainless steel tanks to begin brewing beer. A graduate of Hellenic College, Boston, Khoury, 24, is the only woman brewer - or brewster - in the Middle East. She is being groomed by her family to take over the Taybeh brewery, home of the only Palestinian beer...