conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly...
70. ‘In 2000–2002, Putin was publicly hinting at, and privately seeking, NATO membership for Russia. (…) The principal supposed change was that, from now on, Russia would be a co-equal member of the group, no longer confronted by a unified NATO “side”. This did not work out as...
He was a father, and he had just heard that Iraqi soldiers had taken scores of babies out of incubators in Kuwait City and left them to die. The Iraqis had shipped the incubators back to Baghdad. A pacifist by nature, my brother was not in a peaceful mood that day. "We've got to...
“We were tribeless,” Moran said. “It really did take away who we were.” The disenrolled families challenged the decision, but it was upheld by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which found it was consistent with the tribe’s constitution. Crandell said current tribal leaders now want to ...