The Iraq war, experts say, is a new kind of war — a 360-degree battle space, with no front or rear, no safe zone outside the large fortified bases, and the compounded physical uncertainty of roadside bombs and mortar attacks.
To a degree, the battle lines among athletes are generational: older skiers grew up skiing on straighter skis, whereas younger skiers, like Ligety, 27, grew up on curvier carving skis.
"To a great degree the battle will be decided within Pasok," said Venizelos, whose elevation to the post of party president was another episode in the unfolding crisis that cost the job of his predecessor – the former prime minister George Papandreou.
And to a limited degree, the battle echoes the national drama, with Mr. Andrews invoking the Obama mantle of being a relatively youthful agent of "change" against the establishment's pick of Mr. Lautenberg, even though Mr. Andrews is actually a Clinton supporter.
The group planned to stage battles among their puppets, as they marched alongside inventive costumed characters like the "Master of Degrees," a superhero whose power is being overeducated.
To a large degree, the 2003 battle centered on Mr. Bloomberg, then a fresh-face mayor, and what many viewed as his crusade to redraw the political landscape.
In an interview with Reuters last week, he said one reason he stepped down was that his team had been diverted to some degree to help battle the insurgency.
LONDON — Once again, the United States, China and, to a lesser degree, Russia, are battling to become the nation with the biggest haul of Olympic medals.
It could be that with social media and reality TV, start-ups and DIY's, and no one using their degrees anyway, the battle between getting an education and educating ourselves has left us a little unfocused.
The plan was to fly to 89 degrees south, then battle mother nature the remaining 70 miles to the Pole, cross-country skiing with equipment, food and personal gear in sleds behind us.
Far from being repressed by his time, he flourished within it, to an extraordinary degree, despite a lifelong battle with epilepsy and depression.
