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...Those commanders are believed to have received money from the U.S., but there was no evidence of that in the field. Soldiers who until recently lived in Pakistani refugee camps braved the freezing mountain winds with only wool shawls, fought their way up sixty degree slopes in open toed sandals and haven't been paid ever. That leaves the U.S. to do the searching, but the hundred or so special operatives in the area simply can not cover enough ground...
...surprised to find a man sleeping in Mullah Mohammed Omar's bed in Kandahar. He had his machine-gun next to him, and when I asked him if he was dreaming of Mullah Omar, he growled "I'm too tired to dream," and he covered his head with a wool blanket...
...about to approach the register. And it would ensure that the 62-year-old shopping vet with her steely jaw and bone sharp elbows—a ghost of me to come, really—won’t grab the last pair of black wool mittens...
...worn hats since high school, and has continued at Harvard. His taste for hats evolved into more sophisticated territory as he grew up. He is very specific and has a quota of one hat per style (one beret, one fedora, etc.). He sleeps under an expensive, plush blue wool cap. Different hats occupy his entire immaculately organized bookshelf. Telfeyan, whose favorite hat is a green beret, explains that all of his hats are from back home and that he probably single-handedly supported his local hat store, an opinion shared by FM. He reports being disappointed with the hat selection...
...crimson wool jacket and a black necktie with little drums on it. I know all the words to the Harvard fight songs. Most people at this school can’t sing more than two lines of any Harvard song and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing a crimson wool anything. Owners of the jacket are generally members of the Harvard University Band (although once, while crashing the Screw Your Roommate Dance, I encountered a non-member wearing one in an attempt at “semi-formal...