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...residents of the building are not necessarily whom you would expect to be living in place whose motto is “fire and blood.” Sure, if you walk through the dining hall at mealtime you can probably overhear a group of elderly women and middle-aged spinsters talking about Jesus’ daily presence in their lives. But most of the residents are young women, studying, working, or interning in the city...
...inducing, and, frankly, confusing: the last time I attempted to take one I missed my stop and ended up in a deserted Dudley Station—not a cheerful situation. In both my native New York and adopted Boston, subways are almost always the way to go. Otherwise, I walk. Fast...
...could choose, Marwan would like his operation to be a car bombing targeting U.S. soldiers or Iraqi security forces far from any civilians. But if he is ordered to strap on explosives and walk to his target on a downtown street, he will do so. "We don't get to choose the mission," he says. "That is up to Allah." In fact, the decision will be made by a field commander of al-Zarqawi's group. Marwan hopes he will be chosen for a high-profile hit, the dramatic, headline-grabbing kind that al-Zarqawi is said to direct personally...
...hero at a White House reception. Standing to the side, Lincoln willingly ceded the place of honor he normally occupied, fully aware, as few other ambitious politicians would have been, that "the path to ambition" was wide enough, as an observer phrased it, for the two of them "to walk it abreast...
...could be just another hardscrabble hilltop community: there is a small clinic, a Buddhist monastery, and stalls selling basic goods. But this community is at war. Most men don military uniforms, and even when there is no fighting, there are mist-muffled retorts from a nearby firing range. Children walk to school along roadsides peppered with interconnecting foxholes...