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...that the two insurgencies have any hope of prevailing militarily against the estimated 150,000 Coalition troops currently in Iraq. They're no match in a conventional confrontation, but insurgencies are won and lost in the hearts and minds of the local population, and on that front the battle may be too close to call. The Pentagon's move this week to reinforce its troop levels in Iraq by delaying the return of some 25,000 troops due to have been cycled out underscores the extent to which new instability in the Shiite south adds to the burden...
...Ross takes his mission higher - into the mountains. He builds a "reliquary," as he calls it, of postcards and liquor store stand-up displays of bikini-clad women. He blasts Hank Williams to attract converts. A magnetic personality, by degrees Ross's behavior becomes more peculiar. He and his troop stop using words and don't appear in daylight too often. Eventually their teeth turn sharp and canine-like and they spend time digging up bones from an old graveyard. Hence the steak Gareth is bringing for Ross. The snowglobe seems to be an attempt to amuse...
...globe ... In Europe and the U.S., television's showmen labored to exploit Early Bird's versatility. At their best, the programs were as moving and immediate as Houston's great surgeon Michael DeBakey repairing a human heart while fascinated doctors in Geneva looked over his shoulder. Europe watched troop movements in Santo Domingo while bullets still ricocheted across the Caribbean town ... And between the best and the worst that TV had to offer, imaginative men could pick out the promise of a dream born more than a century ago, when the first crude telegraph suggested that man might some...
...absorbed the lesson of British colonial rule that a heavy military presence in the streets is an irritant, not a reassurance. But the U.S. has also been moving its forces out of the cities into walled-off garrisons to reduce American casualties. Now in the midst of the largest troop rotation since World War II, the Pentagon is replacing seasoned Army combat divisions, in part, with Marines and a sizable corps of reserve and National Guard units (they will make up nearly 40% of the post-June force) unfamiliar with the country, lacking in hands-on experience and trained...
...really be that righteous. It was clearly a façade for something seedier. Yet, Dartboard certainly couldn’t drudge up any memories more unsavory than forced exercises in character-building. So, what had become so wicked and depraved about Girl Scouts that had urged Brownie Troop 7087 to forsake its patch-laden sashes and split up? Dartboard didn’t know, but she was sure it was something twisted and warped...