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...School when I was a student,” she says, looking toward the basement door after hearing a loud thud from the pipes and a yell from Nesson before continuing...
Intense fighting continued through Tuesday and Wednesday. In the first five days of the battle, some 500 bombs and missiles were dropped on the valley. Gunships raked al-Qaeda positions, killing hundreds. "You could hear the AC-130 bombers circling above in the clouds, then this slow thud, thud, thud," said Marine Captain Jeff Pool. "Then these great showers of dust would rise up from the valley floor." By the weekend, snow and freezing rain returned, and American commanders had to decide whether to risk more casualties by going after those fighters--maybe 200 of them--still in the caves...
...Inside” showcases the band’s juxtaposition of pulsing and brooding heaviness with haunting and hummable melody. Initially the guitars thud as McCombs sings in a low eerie tone, then a flickering and sweetly sad bridge ushers in a memorable chorus. Crooning “Everything is right here/ Color me unsold/ Everything is right here inside,” McCombs forges his own sound, though some listeners might find his softer timbre akin to Alice in Chains’s Layne Staley...
...Intense fighting continued through Tuesday and Wednesday. In the first five days of the battle, some 500 bombs and missiles were dropped on the valley. Gunships raked al-Qaeda positions, killing hundreds. "You could hear the AC-130 bombers circling above in the clouds, then this slow thud, thud, thud," said Marine Captain Jeff Pool. "Then these great showers of dust would rise up from the valley floor." By the weekend, snow and freezing rain returned, and American commanders had to decide whether to risk more casualties by going after those fighters?maybe 200 of them?still in the caves...
Thursday night at 12:01 a.m. The Women’s Guide to Harvard landed with a thud in my DeWolfe doorbox—five days after it had been delivered to the rest of campus. For a book whose publication was already a year-and-a-half past deadline, I wasn’t surprised by the delay. Much like the demise of Radcliffe College, which in Oct. 1999 finally equalized undergraduate women in the eyes of Harvard’s administration, the book arrived a little too late and without fanfare, passing unbeknownst to most students on campus...