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...Mexica far outnumbered the Spaniards, and the two peoples were equally bloodthirsty, but in the end, Thomas demonstrates, superior technology enabled the Spanish to prevail. The Mexica fought with lances and swords that were designed to wound, not kill. The Spanish had crossbows, harquebuses and armor- clad horses, none of which the natives had ever seen. The Spanish had two other advantages: a tactician of genius in Cortes and smallpox, which devastated an Indian population which had never previously been exposed...
...wound" of his defeat is rarely glimpsed these days. He moves too fast. He has been to England, Sweden, China, Hong Kong, Taipei, Thailand, Italy, Spain, Kuwait, Mexico -- some of them twice -- and endless American cities. Once or twice each week he is airborne, generally in commercial planes. He earns between $70,000 and $100,000 per speech. He also gives a lot of free pep talks at fund raisers for friends...
...expect it will have it will have any impact," he said. "Two people would have wound up as alternates anyhow...
...Girl Friday, Hildy Johnson wound up with the exacta: she got to ditch her fiance and keep her job. Back then, having it all was getting paid for work you loved doing. Maybe the old days -- and the old movies -- were more modern than we thought...
...stripped-down sound came only partly by design. "The day we were supposed to start recording, our equipment truck was late," Gibbons explains. He wound up jamming on a borrowed, primitive Fender Esquire guitar and a 1949 amplifier. The lyrics on Antenna also stick to the basics, concentrating on the pleasures -- and dangers -- of women and fast vehicles. Still, there are signs that the outlook of the band has mellowed and deepened since the days when it cranked out such adolescent anthems as Legs and Tube Snake Boogie. There's a brooding fatalism in Deal Goin' Down: "When the deal...