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  • And how every story-of love or war-is about looking left when we should have been looking right.

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  • What Flashman has to say of the Apaches-their culture, habits, characters, their ceremonies relating to courtship, marriage, honeymoon, burial, and war-is born out by other contemporary authorities, especially Cremony.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • One of the main reasons why our nuclear war fighting elite can not select a new strategy-one of Peace rather than war-is that they feel that they have gone to far, and there is no turning back now.

    Nukes Over America: All A Stupid Mistake. Sure it Was 2007

  • But in today's Washington, the absurd notion that cutting taxes is the noblest and most important mission of the government-even in a time of war-is so commonplace that few reporters thought DeLay's comments newsworthy enough to write about.

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  • Khisanth will do our bidding only when she realizes that the best course for her future-her only future, considering the upcoming war-is with the Black Wing.

    The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

  • What Flashman has to say of the Apaches-their culture, habits, characters, their ceremonies relating to courtship, marriage, honeymoon, burial, and war-is born out by other contemporary authorities, especially Cremony.

    Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • What Flashman has to say of the Apaches-their culture, habits, characters, their ceremonies relating to courtship, marriage, honeymoon, burial, and war-is born out by other contemporary authorities, especially Cremony.

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

  • Our guest of honour today, John Allen Burns, Lord Inverclyde -- a graduate of Eton and Sandhurst, though an officer in the army having served with distinction in the Scots Guards in both World War I and the last war-is by tradition a man of the sea.

    Heroes of the British Merchant Fleet 1946

  • One analyst gloomily concludes that the water in the West Bank region-which the Israelis captured from the Arabs in the 1967 war-is "fast becoming the most ominous obstacle to any peaceful settlement in the region."

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • One analyst gloomily concludes that the water in the West Bank region-which the Israelis captured from the Arabs in the 1967 war-is "fast becoming the most ominous obstacle to any peaceful settlement in the region."

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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