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...about 42,000 Western troops (slightly more than half American) deployed in Afghanistan. They often summon the U.S. Air Force to bomb enemy positions, indicating just how resilient these mountain fighters can be. Nearly 300 Americans have been killed in and around Afghanistan, about 10% of the U.S. death toll in Iraq...
...read it online.“I thought I would have gotten a call,” Levy says.Unlike “The Big Picture,” a light-hearted 1989 meditation on the industry directed by Guest, “Consideration” examines the emotional toll of award show speculation.“It’s just like a horse race—people are just tossed away,” Guest explains, focusing on the particularly brutal contest to predict Oscar winners.But the writers say they’re not bitter, and that...
...record books.“I think this is potentially the most talented class I’ve ever had,” Delaney-Smith said last November.But while the group earned significant playing time a year ago, the five then-freshmen watched as injuries and inexperience take their toll. The team finished fourth in the league with a mediocre 8-6 Ivy record and the freshmen bided their time until all those collegiate minutes would start paying off.And as the 2006-2007 season kicks off, that time has finally arrived.This season, the Crimson will depend on all five sophomores...
...effect of the Beijing air on newcomers is a vivid reminder of just how awful China's pollution problem is - and the grim toll it is taking on millions and millions of ordinary Chinese. Recent estimates by the state's Environmental Protection Administration put the annual number of premature deaths in China caused by air pollution at a massive...
...member of the Bush family about a very different conflict in Iraq. This time, Gates will be advising George W. Bush on how to get out of--not into--a war, even though the President still believes, in the face of a humbling electoral repudiation and a U.S. death toll approaching 3,000, that the invasion of Iraq was wise, worthy and well planned. Gates' task as the new Defense Secretary is to preach change to a leader who has stuck to his line--despite all kinds of evidence to the contrary--for years...