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...smart bombs, winning ultimately means taking ground inch by inch. In Korea and Vietnam the infantry accounted for only 4% of troops in the theater but more than 80% of those killed in battle. It took Perez nearly three years--along with a threat to quit and a pledge to serve at frigid Fort Drum in upstate New York for up to six years--to prevail. On Valentine's Day of 2000 he reported for training at Fort Benning...
...doing it before 9/11, but I don't think people saw it until then." But a third adviser, someone who has known Bush well for 15 years, dismisses all that and says he believes Bush's tendency to reduce everything to clear-cut choices stems from his decision to quit drinking in 1986, when he woke up one day and realized that drinking was undisciplined and bad and that not drinking was disciplined and good. Few choices in life are so clear, so difficult, but the hardest thing he ever did also worked for him. This ally suggests that Bush...
...just hang out. I like the smell of jet fuel." But after Sept. 11, Jones started thinking about another career. She began taking college courses with the idea of getting her degree and becoming a paralegal. After the shoe-bomber incident, she desperately wanted to quit and found herself withdrawing from friends, spending most of her days sleeping. At night, she would have bad dreams and wake up anxious, believing she had heard footsteps in the house. "You'd think you'd have more of an appreciation for life, appreciate friends and family more, but I'm scared...
...from his constituency in the Kupwara district, a former rebel hotspot. But he relented. "One man came to me and said he would kill his four sons if I did not take part as there was no point going on like this," says Sofi. So he quit the alliance last month to run as an independent. "The Hurriyat is right that the elections don't address the core issue of Kashmir's status," admits Sofi. "But they are ignoring the people's condition, their basic day-to-day suffering." Adds Mohammed Shahbaz, 29, one of 15,000 people who cheered...
Wheaton even split the goalkeeping duties between his two freshman keepers, Katie Shields and Maja Augustdottir. Senior Cheryl Gunther, the Crimson’s keeper for all but a handful of games over the past three years, quit the team during the offseason citing several grievances against Wheaton and the current captains...