...the women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.

Don't be desperate to publicize yourself. Your deeds would definitely pop up sooner or later casting a flash light on you. Just keep working.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.