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...chases after the train, waving for Burma to get off. Suddenly, Bob clutches his chest. He shouts an address, "120, rue de la Gare," and falls, the back of his coat soaked in blood from multiple gunshots. As Burma tumbles out of the train, a beautiful girl in a trench coat stands in the shadows with a pistol in her slender hand. Burma passes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Say "Dirty Flatfoot" in French? | 12/5/2003 | See Source »

...Marianas Trench-like depth extends past probable starters to the edges of the bench...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Solid Back Court Promises Depth | 11/19/2003 | See Source »

...Islamic Jihad official said Lebanese intelligence had warned all the Palestinian groups that Israel would try to strike their offices in Beirut. Some Israeli ministers worry the air strike against Syria made Israel look aggressive and risks opening a conflict across the northern border. In a concrete-lined trench at the Narkis post above Metula, Lieut. Colonel Lior screws up his eyes against the hot, dry wind that sweeps down from the Syrian desert and watches for the next move in that battle. A deputy brigade commander on the border, Lior points out the nearby farmhouses from which Hizballah operatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Exposure | 10/12/2003 | See Source »

...their new role, touting themselves as the guys who will offer the lowest prices for a whole new line of products. "The battle is not joined yet," says Tim Mattox, one of those generals (otherwise known as marketing V.P.s), "but you could say we're laying the foundation for trench warfare." Consumers are going to be the winners. Although Dell hasn't revealed pricing on all the products, its entry into home electronics could send price tags of flat-screen TVs into full retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dell Wants Your Home | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...north, they studiously model their uprising on Mao Zedong's Basic Tactics (1937) and On Guerrilla Warfare (1937). Their rhetoric is filled with an idealism and romance elsewhere found only in history books. "We want to turn this beautiful Himalayan country into an invincible red fort and a shining trench of world proletariat revolution," declared Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai before the rebels took to the hills in 1996. "We are sure we will hoist the hammer and sickle atop Mount Everest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living On the Brink | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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