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...minutes, the raid is over. The firing team picks up the launch frame and loads it into the waiting cars. The perimeter detail melts into surrounding fields. The vehicles fan out to take team members--and the reporter--away. According to the insurgents, U.S. helicopters cased the field in vain after the cell left. "We move here with no problem," says Abu Ali. "This is the lie of American power." (A U.S. military spokesman later refused to confirm or deny whether any of the rockets hit the complex...
...Anita, spent over an hour outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., trying to persuade a faceless security guard—through locked doors, closed curtains and a small speaker—to accept a hand-drawn birthday card to deliver to him in prison. Their quest ended in vain. For the Yang family, this experience was a sad illustration of the opaque approach that the Chinese authorities have taken in his case...
...best way to honor the dead is to vindicate their sacrifice by winning the war so they will not have died in vain. And this war will be won only when Iraqis are convinced that America, while grieving, will not retreat. This requires--and the paradox is cruel--muting public presidential displays of grief until the war is done...
...effort to define the civil war. He called the war a test of whether a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal could survive. After a terrible battle, Lincoln reminded America that the soldiers’ lives were not lost in vain. Lincoln gave the nation hope...
It’s a simple concept. For some, it’s hard to master. But it never was an issue with Turano, and it was in his name on Friday night that Harvard made sure he wasn’t injured in vain...