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...started thinking about it more,” Gross said. “The idea started picking up momentum. We’re trying to do things more...outside the box. So we decided to give it a whirl...
Maybe it was the multiple concussions I had likely suffered from my involuntary cranial thrusts, but, as the warp speed portion of my ride progressed, I began to relax and enjoy myself. I cannot lie; the whirl of the engine, the rush of the wind and the feel of speed was unbelievably (unbearably?) exhilarating and—discounting my perpetual fear of death or serious injury—really, really, really...
...pivot 30 or 40 degrees to either side to see what the world looks like from atop a speeding motorcycle. Apparently, the world looks like a splatter painting rushing by at 80 mph from atop a speeding motorcycle—I would have to content myself with the whirl of the engine and the rush of the wind...
...Still, the real struggle for power still rages in a dizzying whirl of battles, betrayals, retreats and horse-trading among the warlords in Afghanistan. The trickiest issue on the Koenigswinter agenda is almost certain to be the question of an international security force. While there may be a growing consensus among foreign observers and many Afghans on the need for some form of neutral security force to be deployed from outside, the Northern Alliance is having none of it. Rabbani insists that Afghanistan is secure and needs no more foreign troops within its borders, and strong opposition from the Alliance...
...rest of the world, the central question of the trial may be simple: Did Woodland rape the woman, or didn't he? But in Okinawa, the already murky case has been churned into a raging whirl by nationalist politics, screaming media, a half-century of dammed-up local grief and--roiling beneath it all--an undercurrent of racism...