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Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that "the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent."
The temple, built on the remains of an older Mycenaean wall, offers excellent views across the surrounding landscape, and this location was prized by the Ottomans, who tore down the structure to build a defensive battery.
That's the name of the sister who never made it out of Vietnam--who at age 15, drowned when bullets tore through the boat in which she was trying to escape.
Further evidence: At the end of the match, when Brandi Chastain tore off her shirt, ABC did not go to a split-screen shot of the president drooling.
Soviet troops, in Winston Churchill's words, "tore the guts" out of the Nazis.