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The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield, England Result: US 15 beat Europe 13 The 30th Ryder Cup yesterday went the way of 22 of its predecessors when the United States, with a stirring and successful last-day sortie, took the final singles 7½- 4½ and the match 15-13.

What astonishes me most, though, is how a dangerous, exhausting three-day sortie through enemy territory, in which a village is pounded with 2,000lb bombs, jets are called in from Kandahar, and the unit has a narrow and seemingly lucky escape, is deemed a "success" because "two Taliban were killed".

Friday's sortie was a preliminary meeting.

That day, the first sortie released about eighteen hundred gallons of dispersant into the water.

Reports from opposition activists, including the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group based in Britain with a network of contacts in Syria, said the official end of the cease-fire on Monday brought a large expansion of aerial bombardments on Tuesday, including a sortie by a fighter jet that dropped four bombs on the Damascus neighborhood of Jobar.

Mr. Ford's emotional farewell sortie on Sunday after the show for Yves Saint Laurent, a Gucci subsidiary, made for good theater.

The sortie on Friday included Tu-160 and Tu-95 airplanes, known by their NATO appellations as Blackjacks and Bears, according to a statement posted on the Russian Defense Ministry Web site.

They flew only an average of one sortie per day, including strategic defensive missions.

But the company truly earned that accolade on Wednesday night with its first sortie into pure 19th-century classicism.

An article on Friday about the decision by the United States military to send two nuclear-capable B-2 stealth bombers on a practice sortie over South Korea on Thursday included incorrect information from the Pentagon about past training missions.

Wednesday night, the Hornets flew their second sortie that saw action, hitting ISIS artillery just outside Baiji, a Northern Iraq town, just North of Tikrit and halfway between the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul and the government-held capital of Baghdad.