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...hammer-and-anvil strategy. Friendly Afghans, assisted by U.S. special forces, would flush the enemy from the north and northwest toward three exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce combat, the al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were still in place; one American had already been killed...
...cheering as two has-beens sloppily beat the crap out of each other, which becomes sickly real when you're watching Todd Bridges pop poor Rob Vanilla Winkle's head like a tetherball. It finally felt like watching, in some grimy corner of some city, watching two winos whale on each other in a back room for $20 and a bottle of Ripple. It should have been a guilty pleasure, but there just wasn't enough pleasure to cut the guilt. This was boxing at its skeeviest and most degrading, a 21st-century version of "Invisible Man"'s Battle Royal...
...hammer-and-anvil strategy. Friendly Afghans, assisted by U.S. special forces, would flush the enemy from the north and northwest toward three exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce combat, the al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were still in place; one American had already been killed...
...government's 1.1% prediction and that it's probably higher because of trick accounting. He won't say where he would wield the ax but claims he will be tough on the state-funded institutions that grow around Portuguese governments like suckerfish around the mouth of a whale. "There were 130 of these six years ago," he says. "The Guterres government added another 78. Most are to give jobs to the boys...
...should realize what whale and human mothers have known for years: whatever you produce will be good enough, just because it’s yours. And unless you want to do Ph.D. work in your current field—a decision that many of my colleagues would recommend only after you’ve been rejected by the French Foreign Legion—your thesis grade will have virtually no impact on the rest of your life. Just get it done...