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...want to find out where terrorists and killers are. [For those who wanted us to invade Iraq], it has to be because people choose freedom over repression, and because they believe that we are different from what they don't like. And that means, No. 1, we can't pull stunts like that, and No. 2, when we do, whoever is responsible has to pay. The Arabs will not be impressed if we, like in their culture, decapitate all the little guys and exonerate anybody above a certain level who was responsible...
...arms were moving through setting concrete. I hear the pop, pop, pop of his weapon. One round hits my stomach, another my right arm. The last, just below my eye. Trained to keep fighting even if shot, I focus the front sight of my Sig at his heart and pull the trigger repeatedly, riding the recoil. My assailant drops to the floor. I look for my partner and see he has taken down the other attacker. The plane is secure...
...athlete. She is pretty, has a great personality - simply everything." She is also stubborn. As a 4-year-old, she dragged her mother, a bank cashier in the Romanian seaport of Constanta, to the gym to sign her up for lessons. Five years later, when her mother wanted to pull her out of training, deeming it too strenuous, she threatened to run away from home. Now Ponor is training even harder, cramming up to six hours of exercise into a single day. Her mother would not think again of asking her to leave training, says Ponor. "Now she knows...
...freshman race was the most hotly contested of the entire regatta. The Crimson never could shake the pesky Bulldogs, as the two boats were deadlocked at the midway point. Harvard managed to pull out to open water, but Yale stormed back to get within a length. The Crimson held on for a six-seat victory...
...with the power to pull history around a corner; to end a long, cold, fearsome war; to change the conversation of our politics and culture as much by the sheer force of his personality as by the power of his ideas, Ronald Reagan was an unaccountably modest and good-natured soul. He seemed untouched by the arrogance and self-regard common to actors and politicians, to the point that when a brash reporter asked him on the eve of his election what he thought the American people saw in him, Reagan said, "Would you laugh if I told you that...