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Ever since that dark day, life in America began to look more and more like life back home. Everyone had to be on alert, careful, and uncertain. There were flags in yards, on windows, cars, and pickup trucks. People were always talking about how the government was going to respond to the attack and at the same time getting ready for the next attack—and similarly speculating about the response to that attack, and so on. There was hardly any talk about a real cure for the problem of terrorism. America, it seemed to me, was failing...
...when those modest successes provided only a tenuous lead, Dawson effortlessly ratcheted his play up a notch. Just moments into the second quarter, the speedster absorbed a crushing hit on second-and-seven, then launched himself forward just across the 29-yard line for an eight-yard pickup...
Captain Abdel Hadi was driving home from a long day's work as an officer in Iraq's new security force when gunmen pulled him over. Two white Oldsmobiles screeched around his Nissan pickup, and four men armed with AK-47 machine guns grabbed Hadi, blindfolded him and stuffed him into the trunk of a car. They drove him to a safe house in Fallujah, where, for five days in early August, he was tortured and interrogated by some of the insurgents who control the town. His captors, he says, beat his feet and legs with a pipe until...
...someone else's pain than express his own. "If you sing a song and tell somebody how you feel, that's good," says McGraw. "But if you can tell somebody how they feel, that's great. If you can get some old boy driving down the road in his pickup truck to kick the radio and go, 'F___! How did he know?' then you're really doing your...
...buying frenzy. A desire to boost earnings with new retail customers, combined with a general pickup in mergers and acquisitions, has rekindled a decades-old trend of bank consolidation. The banking industry has announced $114 billion worth of M&A's so far this year, including the $58 billion blockbuster that brought together...