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...Alerted by the reconnaissance as to where the next U.S. thrust would come, they came out in force to stop it. For a few minutes, it seemed that every window along the ridge was spitting out machinegun bullets. Hoping to keep collateral damage to a minimum, Battalion commander LTC Chris Hughes called on his TOWs to silence the enemy guns. The TOW is a wire guided anti-tank missile with a powerful blast, and those available to LTC Hughes' forces are fitted with the new ITAS sites that allow the user to see an enemy's trigger finger...
...remainder of the speech was no improvement. There was the general hectoring and finger-wagging - and I don't mean finger-wagging figuratively; the man literally thrust his finger at the camera. A man with Moore's sense of history has no excuse not to realize that makes him look like a crackpot dictator shouting a harangue from the balcony. And while his last line about Bush being in trouble because the Pope and the Dixie Chicks are against him was funny, it was funny because most people don't take the opinions of music groups seriously. Kind of like...
...arguments for preregistration, the one that is most often presented to undergraduates—not by coincidence—is that they will benefit from teaching fellows who are better prepared for the courses they are teaching. This was the main thrust of Kirby’s pitch for preregistration to senior gift volunteers, and it was presented to the Faculty on Tuesday as the main motivation for preregistration. “The primary goal is to improve instruction,” Wolcowitz told the Faculty. But just as a company’s slogan can aim to conceal...
...repaired, and fully intends to use it to defend Iraq's capital. As she contemplates deadly gun battles in the streets around her brother's modest two-story home in the middle-class suburb of Bayaa, her leonine eyes blaze fiercely and she throws back her head to thrust out a defiant jaw. "The Americans should be warned that Iraqi women know how to fight and die as well as our men," she says. "We will give up our lives for our beloved country, our beloved Baghdad and our beloved Saddam...
...Sept. 11 thrust Middle Eastern Studies into the center of things, and we’ve never been there before,” says William E. Granara, director of undergraduate studies in the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations (NELC...