It broadcast footage showing soldiers apparently securing and checking heavily shelled suburbs in southern Damascus and the bodies of "terrorists" it says were killed.
But now, standing at the Ukrainian border, it occurs to me that perhaps I should have at least checked, because the heavily armed Homo sovietus is waving his big stick at me and telling me, in no uncertain terms, to clear off back to Hungary.
It's no small feat: Last time we checked in on more heavily funded competitor TheFancy, it had 2 million registered users and was trying all sorts of ways to make it work, like subscription commerce and giftcards.
I have seen CEOs try to cope with the stress by drinking heavily, checking out, and even quitting.
These days, the loss of a steady pay check weighs heavily on Ms. Turner's mind.
"We're interested in having our ordinary lives be as free as possible," and that includes freedom from the sorts of security checks that heavily armed killers have forced on ever-more corners of American life.
Cheatahs, Younghusband, Echo Lake, DIIV, Teen, Wild Nothing, Melody's Echo Chamber... We could spend this entire page, and more, name-checking bands heavily influenced by "the scene that celebrates itself", and knocking out the kind of noise that music hacks invariably rush to describe as "woozy".
The ministry's physical presence - its multiple floors reportedly controlled by different factions, its location near Sadr City, and it multiple security checks and heavily armed occupants - is itself a symbol of its dysfunction, sectarian character, and ineffectiveness".
Five hundred yards from the lawyers, a group of heavily bearded men wearing checked Arab kaffiyehs and black turbans were engaged in their own protest.
It took place as NATO-led forces were checking a stretch of heavily traveled highway between Kandahar and Spinbaldak for explosives during a road clearance mission and shot at an oncoming car that did not stop when signaled to do so, Major Wojack said.
