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...were also gunfights. We're talking nose to nose." Incessant mortar fire kept men pinned, squirming, to the ground. "With small arms, you can fight back," says Sergeant David Smith, who was hit twice. "But with mortars, you can't do anything much about it. We had to just lie on the ground and basically take it." By the time the first rescue helicopters arrived at 8 p.m., the 10th Mountain had 17 wounded. One man lost two toes; another had to have blood pumped out of his lungs. "We'd just been in a gunfight for 18 hours," Smith...
Particularly illustrative of this delicate balance is a scene where Leahy, urged to lie about the dead bodies in her cellar, indignantly exclaims that she refuses to “tell a fib.” Leahy conveys the strength of a woman who cares about living truthfully and decently and has somehow reconciled multiple murders with her sense of moral integrity...
...hectoring, acid-tongued Syed Shahabuddin, created a platform for the Hindu resurgence in the 1980s with their virulent and purposeless rhetoric. Their successors in 2002 have provided Hindu fanaticism with another cause célèbre. Sadly, in the darker shades of India's patchwork history still lie the present and perhaps the future...
...were also gunfights. We're talking nose to nose." Incessant mortar fire kept men pinned, squirming, to the ground. "With small arms, you can fight back," says Sergeant David Smith, who was hit twice. "But with mortars, you can't do anything much about it. We had to just lie on the ground and basically take it." By the time the first rescue helicopters arrived at 8 p.m., the 10th Mountain had 17 wounded. One man lost two toes; another had to have blood pumped out of his lungs. "We'd just been in a gunfight for 18 hours," Smith...
...keys to the future success of the Democratic Party lie in improving media relations and taking credit for its own achievements, agreed four top-level Democrats Friday at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum...