The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya potx

... There’s sand streaming off it, and Staff Sergeant Brandon Espinosa, who’s on  watch,  bends down and hauls me up. He’s put up a canvas screen with  the help of the two ANA who’re there with him. The guard tower sways like a ship in the storm. Espinosa looks exhausted, and I don’t blame him.He shouts: I’m going to send my ANA crew down and stay up here by myself. Less trouble that way.I lean toward him and shout back: Suit yourself. The relieved ANA slither down.I watch them go and shake my head: You’d think they weren’t in their own country.Espinosa says: They aren’t. They’re Uzbek. This is Pashtun land.I say: No point telling you to keep a look out, but still . . . He cracks a smile and shoves a wad of chew into his mouth. He’s a veteran of Iraq, a man of few words, capable, efficient. I’m not wor-ried about leaving him in the tower by himself.Back on the ground, I run with Whalen past the brick-and-mor-tar command post, then follow the Hescos back toward the ECP. We slow down by the shelter of the mortar pit where Manny Ramirez and Pratt have secured the gun with canvas. Pratt has his M-4 tucked Bhat_9780307955890_7p_01_r2.indd ... W A T C Hand bank away from the ground. The rising sun spools through the windows of the bird and slathers the valley red. It lights on the face of  the man in the stretcher next to mine. It’s Mitchell.Someone sticks a needle into my arm. I swallow hard.I’m going home.Bhat_9780307955890_7p_01_r2.indd ... 37Whalen, who’s six four, picks up Fazal Ahmed and sets him down by the Hescos. Stay here! he roars.I drag the other two Afghans back. You’re not allowed to leave, I yell.Ya’ll understand? Whalen roars again, shouting above the wind.They don’t reply, but return to crouching sullenly by the Hescos.We leave them and canter over to the camo nets surrounding the guard tower. I clamber up the staircase, while Whalen stays behind.  The raw wind buffets me as I ascend the rickety steps, and I have to grasp the guardrails with all my strength. Sand, stones, and clumps of dust whirl upward and hit me. A loose splinter ricochets off the back of my hand and leaves a bloody smear. Then the platform looms above ...

... world they are playing the game of paintball, while in the other world they play poker. The player is the same person, with the same values—for example, “one should never cheat”—but (in the ... each other; they bash each other on the head until the lunch whis-tle blows. Then they stop in midbash, go companionably to share a meal, and after stretching and yawning, return to their positions ... independently of the person and will be there after they leave. The implications of this perception are that, as cold as it sounds, the function of the position is more mission critical to the organization...

... pairs, where the translation of the in-parenthesis terms is a suffix of the pre-parenthesis text. The lengths and frequency counts of the suffixes have been used to determine what is the translation ... C is the length of the Chinese text, E is the length of the English text in the parentheses and K is a constant (we used K=6 in our experiments). The lengths C and E are measured in bytes, ... our modified version of the competitive link-ing algorithm, the link score of a pair of words is the sum of the φ2 scores of the words themselves, their prefixes and their suffixes. In addition...

... flour and roll them as thick as your finger, tapering at each end; lay them on the board, fasten the three together at one end, and then lay one over the other in a plait, fasten the other end, ... which father, brother, or husband goes to Delmonico's to enjoy, as they do to the crochet tidies or embroidered rugs with which they decorate their drawing-rooms, they could then take the ... it, although it is better so to manage that the oven waits for the bread rather than the bread for the oven. A small loaf and by all means make them small until you have gained experience will...

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