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Getting Bin Laden - The New Yorker - 12 views

www.newyorker.com/...getting-bin-laden

shared by chancegorman on 20 Oct 16 - No Cached

If all went according to plan, the SEALs would drop from the helicopters into the compound, overpower bin Laden’s guards, shoot and kill him at close range, and then take the corpse back to Afghanistan.
- chancegorman on 20 Oct 16
  
  This Shows how determined they were and how dialed in the soldiers were for this mission
  
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“You have an adult male, late at night, in the dark, coming down the stairs at you in an Al Qaeda house—your assumption is that you’re encountering a hostile.”)
- chancegorman on 20 Oct 16
  
  These Guys were taking no prisioners, Kill or be killed
  
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a decade of cooperation and partnership between the United States and Pakistan led up to the elimination of Osama bin Laden.”
- chancegorman on 20 Oct 16
  
  This tells how long the US and Pakistan have been planning the assassination and how stretched out the process was for a 38 minute assassination on Bin Laden.
  
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An Alphabet for Gourmets: 1940s Archive : gourmet.com - 4 views

www.gourmet.com/...alphabetforgourmets_p-r.html

shared by chancegorman on 12 Sep 16 - No Cached

My peas, that is, the ones that reached an almost unbelievable summit of perfection for me and can most probably never happen quite so fortunately again, met these three gastronomical requirements to a point of near-ridiculous exactitude
- chancegorman on 13 Sep 16
  
  This was a great description of the best peas she has ever tasted, telling us how exactly perfect that they had to be in order to take the place as the best peas of all time.
  
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I sat open-mouthed at it and can still see the the arc of little green vegetables flow up into the air and then fall, with a satisfying shush, back into the pan some three or four feet below and at least a yard from where they took off.
- chancegorman on 13 Sep 16
  
  This was a great description because I can almost see her staring at the pea pods as they fly up into the air, and I can practically hear them when they hit the bowl below.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This was a great description because I can almost see her staring at the pea pods as they fly up into the air, and I can practically hear them when they hit the bowl below.</div>
  
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The Man Who Ate Everything - 11 views

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shared by chancegorman on 12 Sep 16 - No Cached

My phobia crumpled when I understood that the anchovies living in American pizza parlors bear no relation to the sweet, tender anchovies of Spain and Italy, cured in dry sea salt and a bit of pepper
- chancegorman on 13 Sep 16
  
  This was particularly an interesting description because I can understand that he has seen and tasted both of the anchovies of the world, ones that are sweet and tender, and others that are plain and boring.
  
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The rest, most of it simply grilled with lemon and olive oil, was delicious, and as an added bonus I was launched on what still feels like an endless journey toward the acceptance of okra.
- chancegorman on 13 Sep 16
  
  This explanation really told me that he had tasted something marvelous from the greek restaurant, and felt like he had been taken on an adventure through just tasting the food.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This explanation really told me that he had tasted something marvelous from the greek restaurant, and felt like he had been taken on an adventure through just tasting the food.</div>
  
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