Word: trailing
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...forces hot on the trail of Osama bin Laden and the leaders of the Taliban in late 2001 didn't worry much about elderly, pious-looking men like Haji Juma Khan. A towering tribesman from the Baluchistan desert near Pakistan, Khan was picked up that December near Kandahar and taken into U.S. custody. Though known to U.S. and Afghan officials as a drug trafficker, he seemed an insignificant catch. "At the time, the Americans were only interested in catching bin Laden and [Taliban leader] Mullah Omar," says a European counterterrorism expert in Kabul. "Juma Khan walked...
HEINZ KERRY: I haven't had time. Reading on the campaign trail is studying, studying, studying, studying and newspapers and studying. I've been reading the Life of Pi [Yann Martel] and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight [Alexandra Fuller], little chapters here and there, and A History of the American People by Paul Johnson. And that's all the books I can read right...
...detailed account of the McGovern-Nixon race, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72, Hunter S. Thompson wrote that the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami was “shaping up very fast these days as one of the most brutal and degrading animal acts of our time...
...concluded her speech, which compared Kerry to Paul Revere and maintained the motif’s of Boston’s role in the American Revolution, by saying, “Let us make the campaign trail our Freedom Trail. And let us follow that trail, all the way to the voting booth and ‘Kerry’ this nation forward...
...frank comparison of classes, recalling both the senator’s own past rhetoric on the campaign trail and former president Bill Clinton’s sharper digs at the Bush tax cuts on Monday night, countered criticism of Kerry as an aristocratic New England liberal...