Word: wield
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...gang of five- or six-year-old boys dressed in black vests and bin Laden T shirts, their heads covered by black balaclavas, race in and out of the grimy front room of the Laskar headquarters repeatedly shouting "Assalamu' alaikum" (may peace be with you) as they wield machetes, 30-cm daggers and loaded shotguns. Their antics draw an abrupt, approving laugh from Ichsan. Obviously the boys' role model, the stocky 32-year-old is clad entirely in black, down to the socks he wears under his army-issue combat boots. He says he has just returned from what...
...vision: subscriptions. Add up AOL, cable TV and magazines, and they have 137 million people mailing in payments. This year the duo clung for too long to profit promises they couldn't keep. But as they direct Warner Bros., CNN and the Time Inc. magazines, Case and Levin wield unrivaled influence on global culture...
...those present at the talks did were far from a representative cross-section of the many armed formations which currently wield effective power on the ground in different parts of southern, northern and western Afghanistan. Already General Rashid Dostum, whose Uzbek Northern Alliance forces captured Mazar-i-Sharif, has vowed to boycott the new government and prevent it from functioning in his domain. Although the Northern Alliance holds 17 of the 30 cabinet posts, Dostum feels slighted by his Tajik alliance partners who got the plum jobs. And that's not the half of it: The Tajik Northern Alliance representatives...
...When he goes before the world, the President will need to provide evidence that the military component of his campaign against terrorism is delivering more than just ruins. The Administration craves some kind of victory in Afghanistan that Bush can wield as a trophy in New York. Military officials told Time they are monitoring several cave compounds in the mountains between Kabul and Kandahar where they believe bin Laden may be holed up. Last week U.S. warplanes began pummeling the area, hoping to kill bin Laden or at least collapse passageways inside the cave to effectively immobilize...
...were never going to be bad, and in fact they are much, much better than that. What happens when three ludicrously talented musicians get together and have fun? Well, a lot of silliness to be sure: The title track is a pastiche march, and the bizarre “Wield the Spade” owes something to early Pink Floyd in its cartoonish morality tale. They’re not always politically correct: “Shadow of a Man” is all about Billy who came back from Vietnam. The brilliant “Pseudo Suicide...