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...American casualties those attacks often go unreported. While attacks have come in the form of sniper fire, roadside bombs and mines, ambushes and close-range gunfire, the weapon of choice among those seeking to kill American soldiers in Iraq appears increasingly to be the RPG-7 rocket launcher. The cheap, portable, recoilless Soviet-designed rocket launcher has long been a favorite of guerrilla armies everywhere, because it evens up the odds against more heavily armed and armored enemies. The Afghans and Chechens have used them to devastating effect against the Russians, and Somali militiamen used one to down...
Such anxiety may result from the fact that Wilson drifted into acting by accident. In his early 20s, he was, by his own description, "floundering," when he was drafted into the profession by his older brother Owen, who needed cheap labor for a movie he was working on with his friend Wes Anderson. "Acting came at the right time," says Luke. "It gave me something to focus on." The movie, Bottle Rocket, was little seen by audiences but admired enough by the industry that the trio reteamed for the successively higher-budget and higher-profile films Rushmore and The Royal...
This summer, although I’ve traveled less than two miles away from my beloved Quincy House, I’ve become acquainted with the virtues of cheap(er) real estate. Yes, Central Square does lack that 02138 mystique of the square down the road, but that’s about the only thing it lacks...
After a suicide bomber in Jerusalem killed 17 people the day after the failed hit on Rantisi, Sharon told his Cabinet ministers, according to Gissin, "Jewish blood can't come cheap. We aren't going to be put on the altar of the road map." Gissin maintains that Sharon's revulsion to terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians dates from the 1950s, when there were frequent lethal penetrations of Israel from the West Bank, then controlled by Jordan. Sharon, a young army officer, took command of Unit 101, a counterterrorism outfit that launched reprisal attacks on Palestinian villages there...
...friends told me matter-of-factly that "[authorities]cleaned all that up." I didn't like the sound of that?even aging hippies need a place to lay their buzzing heads. But although a crackdown on drugs has restrained the nightlife in Goa somewhat, there are still plenty of cheap rooms and heaving clubs, most of them located north of the Mandovi River, for young travelers with statement hair. South Goa keeps its beaches tie-dye-free, catering mainly to the well-heeled...