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...instances since then of such a weapon firing on and downing a commercial airliner. In the past 18 months, alQaeda has twice tried to down planes with shoulder-fired missiles; both times they missed. It turns out that shoulder-fired missiles, while compact enough to fit in a duffel bag, are not particularly reliable weapons. But with an estimated 350,000 of them in government caches around the globe and countless more for sale on the black market, there is an abundance of them available. Even people like Hemant Lakhani think they can get their hands...
...With Faas' input, Pyle has written a breezy, anecdotal and occasionally poetic book. But it is too much of a tribute to really penetrate the psyches of men as complex and-in all probability-slightly disturbed as, say, Potter, who kept a duffel bag of guns and hand grenades in his Saigon apartment. Another unpopular war broke out as I finished reading Lost over Laos, and I suspect that's what gave it much of its resonance. So did the sudden, sobering thought that-with the never-ending war on terror taking journalist friends to ever more hostile places...
That’s just what his son did. Later, after Harvard’s celebration had moved to the locker room and Dartmouth’s players started to file onto their bus, Lentz lingered outside Dillon Field House, the duffel bag slung over his shoulder the only baggage weighing on him. Only when pressed did he confess to some satisfaction over getting the better of Dartmouth...
...treats it like any other movie showing. But a cast and crew of more than 50 volunteers—actors, directors, lighting crews, security personnel and prop managers—works to put on the production each week. They lug their costumes from home in rolling suitcases and duffel bags. They’ve built scenery to look like the coffins and elevators in the movie, and they store it at the theater between performances...
...would also tell people he was a music producer or a fitness-club owner. In reality, Muhammad had had trouble finding work of late. And he had lost custody of four of his children in a series of noxious legal battles. But together with his imagination, his Army-style duffel bag and his well-mannered "son," Muhammad had apparently cobbled together a world for himself--one that, for a time at least, obeyed his will. "I always thought of them in an endearing way," Peter David, one of the coffee-shop workers would later say. "How often...