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...Still, the ground war against the Taliban and al Qaeda has been waged primarily by Afghan forces happy to take advantage of American logistical and air support to vanquish their foes and stake their own claims for power. That alliance between the U.S. and its Afghan proxies has been, inevitably, one of convenience rather than of principle. The shared goal was breaking the Taliban's grip on power and putting to flight the al Qaeda volunteers who had helped keep it in place - while the Afghan warlords have expressed commitment to help America snare its quarry in order to stay...
...city of New York ("I know that it isn't a person - it's a persona" ... "Often touted as the icon of the impersonal, New York showed the world what it truly means to be human"); its rescue workers, police and firemen (" No foe could ever hope to vanquish a nation capable of producing men and women such as these"); the victims of the attack ("They showed us the American spirit even as they died: bravery, love of family, selflessness") and the typical American ("the average, everyday, ordinary person who gives without question"... "We stand as a family united...
Peterson so far polls 32% against Bush. But he keeps the Governor at 48% and leaves a 20% chunk undecided. It's the kind of math the centrists like. Peterson would first have to vanquish Reno in the primary, which means, he acknowledges, taking on the onerous task of convincing Democrats that he can "appeal ultimately to a wider section of voters than Democrats." Still, unless they can transform Peterson into a more galvanizing pol or make Reno more appealing to Floridians above Lake Okeechobee, the Democrats look about as likely to win as the alligators that Reno's late...
...plot is strictly B movie: a young samurai is teleported by the evil wizard Aku to the distant future. So is the dialogue ("With the power of this sword, I will vanquish Aku!"). But even nonaction fans will be wowed by the art. Creator Genndy Tartakovsky (Dexter's Laboratory) raids the history of illustration, art and cinema with the gusto of a kid playing in an attic. He gleefully cobbles past, present and future into a supercool fantasy of classical Japanese art, Hanna-Barbera, expressionism, anime, '60s film and '50s modernism, just for starters. (His dystopian future city looks like...
...else, the series Xena: Warrior Princess seemed to come to a definitive conclusion. After six seasons, the show's final episode saw Xena, played by LUCY LAWLESS, being riddled with arrows and decapitated. Her corpse was later hanged from a tree and cremated. On the plus side, she did vanquish some evil spirits. But that wasn't enough to pacify fans of the show. An angry rabble has taken to the Internet, complaining on fan sites of the violent nature of Xena's death and the fact that it seems to preclude the possibility of future Xena Christmas reunion specials...