Example sentences for: bowden

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  • Book-- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War , by Mark Bowden.

  • Sportswriters were happy for 1) Florida State receiver Peter Warrick , the undisputed star of the game, who "redeemed" himself after last year's arrest and suspension for theft; 2) Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, who got his first undefeated season and second national championship in 40 years of coaching; and 3) the Virginia Tech players , who "put season-long criticism of their toughness to rest" with a valiant comeback attempt.

  • But Bowden's excellent reporting--he interviewed scores of U.S. and Somali soldiers--makes for a "vivid, immediate and unsparing narrative that is filled with blood and noise and terror" (Jonathan Yardley, the Washington Post ). (Read the first chapter courtesy of the New York Times [requires free registration].)

  • I enjoyed Charles Bowden's account of the perils of being a young female factory worker in Mexico, safari guide Mark Ross' harrowing if sentimentally written account of his kidnapping in Uganda by Hutu rebels, and much of the front-of-the-book "Conversation" section.


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