Word: tolls
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...perhaps to some malicious fluke in the internal wiring of human nature, there’s nothing quite as satisfying as cruising (albeit only at a cool 15mph) through the EZ-Pass lane at a particularly large and heavily trafficked toll plaza, while dozens of cars slow to a gridlocked crawl around you. What you probably aren’t thinking about, however, as you revel in the glory of your Schadenfreude, is your divorce proceedings, 10 years down the line. There, your present-day fiancee (at that point your soon-to-be ex-wife) might be using records...
...would be ethically irresponsible. While we may not have favored invasion in the first place, America made a promise to the people of Iraq—and America must make a good faith effort to fulfill that promise. After all, this war has taken a profoundly larger toll on innocent Iraqi civilians—unofficial estimates range from at least 10,000 to 37,000—and all of them, in addition to the thousand Americans, deserve to have died in a worthwhile struggle. While removing Saddam Hussein was an undeniable victory, a violent civil war hardly leaves Iraq...
...explained Harvard’s new assistant coach, Terry London. “You know, [they could] sleep whenever they wanted to sleep and play tennis whenever they wanted to play [in high school]. Now, it becomes really regimented, and it’s taken a toll on the body...
...troops and the frail forces of the interim Iraqi government. All this has helped make the peace much bloodier than the war: last month anti-U.S. attacks climbed to 87 a day, more than double the rate in 2003 and the first half of 2004. The U.S. death toll since sovereignty was returned to Iraq on June 28 has eclipsed the number killed in the invasion, and the total tally just passed 1,000. The wounded number more than 7,000. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld estimates that coalition forces killed up to 2,500 suspected insurgents in August...
...Iraq since August to assess how best to train the nascent Iraqi army. If they agree to expand the mission, up to 300 training instructors could be sent to Iraq to join the U.S. operation currently rebuilding the 260,000-strong Iraqi military force. But as the death toll mounts and the chaos widens, the prospect of NATO troops in Iraq makes many European governments blanch. On Friday, France and Belgium refused to sign off on that enlarged mission, setting the stage for more talks this week. Some argue that the alliance already has its hands full. The Afghanistan mission...