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That seems to be current U.S. policy in Afghanistan. Though there are about 9,000 U.S. troops still in theater, they are hunkered down in a defensive crouch. Such genuine peacekeeping as is being done--and given the tendencies of its warlords, peace in Afghanistan is never easily kept--is in the hands of the non-American soldiers in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), whose leadership is about to pass from Turkey to a joint German-Dutch command. Until very recently, the Pentagon seemed anything but keen to see ISAF's mission extended beyond Kabul, to which...
...banco" and later as "bunco" or "bunko." During the Gold Rush, a crooked gambler in San Francisco is said to have used the game to bilk some Forty-Niners out of their money, turning its name into a general term for cons. In 1996 Carlsbad, Calif., toy marketer Leslie Crouch packaged its components under the title It's Bunco Time!!! and started marketing it to women. Now, on any given night, groups all over the country gather together in what has become the female bonding experience of the moment. In Contra Costa County, Calif., women's bunco games rival bridge...
...singers talk to the audience as much as they sing, but LeBlanc comes close. Whether it by demanding that a grouchy old bouncer clap along, or by instructing the crowd to crouch silently on the ground (a remarkable sight) before jumping up to shout the chorus to their hit “Jenny Says,” LeBlanc was a tornado of energy and enthusiasm. Indeed, he was sufficiently gregarious that at times other members of the band could be seen laughing at his intensity...
...wouldn’t? But those emotions force him into accepting every ludicrous proposition propounded by opponents of Summers’ position, and into a crouch, where every action of considered judgment is viewed through the lens of his petulancy...
...eyeholes cut into it. Around his brow is a white strip of cloth with black writing: KATA'IB SHUHADA' AL-AQSA, al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Arafat's Fatah organization that vies with Hamas as the principal orchestrator of attacks on Israelis, including civilians. As the gunmen crouch behind their 15-ft. sand barricade, they shift their feet and their grips on their weapons, on some level wishing that the Israelis would come now and be done with it. "I'm prepared for martyrdom," Abu al-Fahed, 28, says through his mask. "They kill us anyway...