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...town, where some 2,000 Taliban fighters are believed to be holed up, was surrounded on Friday by British and Afghan forces, in preparation for an airborne assault by U.S. troops expected overnight in a drive to recapture the town. Musa Qala was captured by the Taliban in February of this year, without a shot being fired - they simply rolled into town and planted their flag after British forces withdrew, having brokered an agreement with local tribal elders to keep the peace. And the radical movement fighting to expel foreign forces from Afghanistan and reimpose its harsh brand of Islamic...
...nation of citizens to a nation of consumers,” it follows that corporations such as McDonald’s and Wal-mart, represented in Brouws’s photographs from all around the United States, bulldoze the area around the suburbs to a dulling conformity of drive-ins and parking lots. This analysis is arguably simplistic, but the fact remains that Brouws’s photographs testify to the uniformity of the landscape marred by highways, rest areas, and suburbs. Whether in New York, Ohio, or Oklahoma, all McDonalds’ restaurants incontestably look the same. Jack Kerouac...
...agent types stake out a palace gate as Nicholas Cage and his family emerge with a piece of wood. Cage makes eye contact with the agents. They make eye contact with him. And the chase is on. That’s where we discover that people in England mostly drive backwards, another interesting cultural difference. But by far the best moment of international insight that “National Treasure” offers comes as the Cage crew rush to their car. “I’ll drive”, his companion shouts, then jumps in the left...
quick offense, drive to the basket and that is what...
...Michigan squad that he thinks will work in the long term. And he’ll recruit players that suit that style. The question is: are Amaker’s reported bumper crop of six highly-touted incoming recruits the electrifying bruising-face-on-rim, clear-out-and-dribble-drive type or the kinds of hoopsters that can mesh with the group of gritty, poised, I’ll say it, smart players that played all-out defense, made smart passes, and came through in the clutch to deliver the W this weekend? We can only wait and see.KARAN...