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...force ourselves on these ranch areas. We're there because people ask us if we'd like to train there," said Colonel Neil Hutton, head of the British training program in Kenya. "As it turns out, it's a good deal for everybody. We don't come knocking on their doors, bullying them. It's very much a relationship." (Read "How a Biofuel 'Miracle' Ruined Kenyan Farmers...
...Known as Operation Grand Prix, the training exercises can be massive, involving hundreds of troops, helicopters, and live-mortar and live-rifle fire. The military says this is the closest the soldiers will get to actual combat before they deploy to Afghanistan. The soldiers train by themselves and alongside the Kenyan army, sometimes with locals playing the roles of rioters or restless crowds. To accommodate the increase in troops, the army has begun renting land from residents - it went from dealing with three landowners a few years ago to seven now. Neither the military nor the ranches will disclose...
...need to really start preparing for Dartmouth, thinking about Dartmouth, not dwelling on this loss but keeping this in the back of our minds,” Nyamekye said. “We’re going to train hard this week...
When Earhart and her future husband George Putnam (Richard Gere) walk to the train station together after meeting for the first time, a trio of rowdy soldiers joking in the background goes a long way in placing the timeless sentimentality of such a encounter in 1927. Wherever Earhart stops for fuel, the camera lingers in close-up on the children who greet her. Her feats inspired a nation in a way that modern figures rarely can, and the children she meets—including a young Gore Vidal—function as silent narrators of her story...
...album, and uses simple, sunny guitar and Ben Gibbard’s lighthearted vocals to set the expansive, American West scene. A rambling, pleasantly repetitive tune, “Zephyr” conveys a good sense of movement, as one can almost imagine peacefully sitting on the eponymous train, humming this tune as fields and hills stretch by. The chorus—“I’m transcontinental / 3,000 miles from home / I’m on the California Zephyr / watching America roll by”—perfectly captures the spirit of travel and adventure...