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This marked only the beginning in a long series of political debates and snafus that would come to define fall 2009 and spring 2010. The tragic shooting at Fort Hood laid bare the inadequacies of mental-health offerings in the United States military and showed us that terrorism is not the sole province of religion. Similarly, reactions to the threat of terrorism represented not change that we could believe in, but rather the stasis that we feared. We were disappointed by Obama’s renewal of the Patriot Act, a bill whose overwhelming Congressional support was cause for alarm...
...establish their dominance, leading the game 2-0 at the very beginning. Within four rounds and with the aid of several recruited pre-teen paintball enthusiasts, HSC managed to tie the game. Playing a total of eight rounds while rotating between three terrains—attacking and defending a fort, a village shootout, and an extreme field filled with large blown-up geometric barriers—the game ended at a score of 5-3 in favor of HLS, who put the young’uns in their place...
Before leaving, both clubs teamed up for one final round against a rag-tag team of children and adults, putting aside their (age) differences and proving the power of collaboration by victoriously taking siege of a fort...
...It’s wonderful to hear that Dean Sorensen will come back after her leave,” Shelemay said. “And Ingrid Monson is really a terrific individual to hold down the fort...
...Rules of Engagement Senjaray is a warren of mud walls and unpaved streets, dust and more dust, shaped like a hornet's nest hanging from the branch of a tree. The branch is the Afghan Ring Road, a two-lane paved highway. The U.S. fort is located just north of the highway; the Taliban control the land to the south, a lush farming area, irrigated by water from the Arghandab River. The dividing line is a canal that runs along the southern border of the town; the Pir Mohammed School sits on the banks of both that canal...