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… claims for the efficacy of air power that had been common since the beginning of the century. Uncertain that … so demoralize or incapacitate the enemy as to render ground combat obsolete. More Utopian formulations, some of them … context for the war from both the Axis and the American points of view, to accept his designation of American …

… On Whitman’s “To a Locomotive in Winter” In Wordsworth’s 1833 sonnet, … of “influential traditions of English prosody which forms points of departure, at least, for any indigenous rhythms … twinkle of thy wheels Thy train of cars behind, obedient, merrily-following, Through gale or calm, now swift, …

… but equally potent founding myths. In one, William Randolph comes from nowhere, has no money, arrives with only an axe … very height of the Middle Ages, when knights wore their ladies’ favors on their helmets and went out to tilt in their … instance, that Richmond and El Cerrito, California, were endpoints on one fork of the Great Migration; that the …

… the sun starts to set on the Atlantic Ocean, the market comes alive. The boats pull in, bringing loads of fish in … to protect the spawning grounds of some species. They are also trying to establish more oversight of the fishery … have made it. Others haven’t. One of Lamin Diop’s friends died along the way. I ask him why his friend had risked it. …

… Reverse? Up until this week, if you’d asked an American soldier or Marine what the worst place in all Afghanistan was, … most dangerous, bloodstained, shot at, ambushed, the least comfortable, the hardest to get in or out of, the most … to be “in its last throes.” But the Korengal situation also underscores one of the central paradoxes of modern war, …