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...next time you watch Butler defeat Mississippi St. in the final seconds or the Diamondbacks shock the Yankees in the World Series, remember that feeling—for some, it’s part of what makes life worth living...
...Yasin, whose speech entitled “My American Jihad” made him an instant celebrity last June, the attention came as a shock. “I thought and hoped that [my speech] would raise some eyebrows and get people thinking,” Yasin wrote in an e-mail from Pakistan, where he is currently working, “but had absolutely no idea that it would become the national news item that...
...gaped at me in shock. “You better know before your interview...
...Command tells it all. This is going to be a war unlike any other in the history of the world. But what will make this war different will not be the manner in which it is fought, or the tactics that the troops will use (for “shock and awe” is as old as warfare itself), but that never before has a war been produced for a television audience...
...Earlier in the day, the battalion had made an armed reconnaissance into the area and came under sporadic fire, which they suppressed with some micro-scale shock and awe. It was assumed at the time that Iraqi forces would return when the reconnaissance units departed...