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...face of the American soldier who arrived at the U.S. field hospital in the area around midnight Dec. 6 were only a little red as medics crowded around him at the operating table. Navy Commander Carlos Brown, the chief surgeon at Camp Ramadi, peered at the bullet wound in the soldier's lower face as his team quickly cut clothes off the man and readied surgical equipment. "Stop," Brown said suddenly. All hands fell away from the table, and everyone grew silent. "He's dead...
...destroyed, revels in irrelevant pleasure. What everyone needs is, well, a savior. And that's where Jaguar Paw comes in. He is, for all intents and purposes, dead not once but half a dozen times in this movie, yet always manages a resurrection. He even has a spear wound in his abdomen, not unlike a certain other divine figure. Most important of all, he is at one with his universe. The natural order keeps magically providing for this good son, because his heart is pure. There's even a moment when the Spanish conquistadores appear, crosses prominently displayed. But Jaguar...
...celebratory atmosphere. “I’m ecstatic,” said Campaign Manager Tracy E. Nowski ’07. “We’ve been working harder on this than my thesis would like to discuss.” As the election wound down, Petersen and Sundquist ran into trouble with campaign regulations, racking up a total of 305 violation points—the most of any of the six tickets. But Nowski said they weren’t worried. “It just keeps things interesting,” she said. Presidential...
...morning of my flight to Gatwick Airport—July 21, 2005—terrorists attempted to bomb the London public transportation system. I wound up never leaving New York, never enrolling in “Development in the International Political Economy,” and I accepted it all as divine, terrifying providence...
Rossi had received a dragon book identical to one our historian later finds in Paul’s library. When a colleague and close friend dies from a suspicious neck wound, Rossi defects for Cambridge, Mass. Kostova, a Yale graduate, has her characters using all sorts of amusing circumlocutions—the “excellent university,” the university of the “distinguished American scholar”—to describe our fine institution, Rossi’s chosen haven...