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...wounded Taliban soldier, lying in the long grass, was shot to pieces. Alliance soldiers started looting, taking guns and ammunition and rifling the pockets of the dead for money, pens and cigarettes. The Taliban's new-looking sneakers were a particular target. Within minutes, the Alliance fighters had thrown away their shoes and yanked the sneakers from the cold, gray feet of the Taliban dead. The bloated carcasses of 30 horses, with entrails spilling, added a thick stench to the smoke and gunpowder. All the dead were described by the Alliance as "terrorists" and "dangerous foreigners." "I killed four Chechens...
...Moan-o-dramas. Right now it’s Joanne reading. She reads in a serious, histrionic voice, like someone on the radio…She’s got her sunglasses perched on the end of her nose, like a teacher. For extra hilarity she’s thrown in a fake English accent?...
Needless to say, this has thrown the senior class into a bit of a frenzied tizzy. Throughout our four years here, Harvard has taught us that success is an infinite race for, simply, more—more activities, more straight As, more friends, more leadership titles. We students create much of this environment ourselves, which only perpetuates and exacerbates the problem. Thus, come time of graduation and of finding a job, our Harvard-bred mentality encourages us in a specific direction: to follow the money—and if you can’t secure that, than to at least...
...urinate in front of other children, lest his circumcised penis give him away. Sensible policy. In Budapest's City Park one day in 1943, a little girl turned to him and said, "Jesus Christ was killed by the Jews, and because of that, all the Jews will be thrown into the Danube." The child adumbrated Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi bureaucrat who months later took charge of the deportation and extermination of Hungarian Jews...
Hyland, who accounted for 444 yards of offense by himself Saturday, was playing in place of injured quarterback Peter Lee. Entering The Game, Hyland had thrown nine interceptions in 82 attempts in three games...