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...every veteran's nightmare. The battle has long been over, and the honorable discharge is gathering dust in the attic. Then word comes: the ex-soldier has been recalled to active duty. In this case he is former Lieut. Ben Tyson, whose company once massacred civilians in a covered-up atrocity bearing more than a coincidental resemblance to the one at My Lai. When an investigative journalist reveals damning new evidence, Tyson is hauled before a court-martial on charges of mass murder. Is he guilty? Will a military tribunal be more vindictive than civilian justice? Can any circumstances mitigate...
Being the founder of the Internet's largest encyclopedia means Jimmy Wales gets a lot of bizarre e-mail. There are the correspondents who assume he wrote Wikipedia himself and is therefore an expert on everything-like the guy who found vials of mercury in his late grandfather's attic and wanted Wales, a former options trader, to tell him what to do with them. There are kooks who claim to have found, say, a 9,000-year-old, 15-ft.-tall human skeleton and wonder whether Wales would be interested. But the e-mails that make him laugh...
...current decade doesn't even have a nickname (the zeros? the aughts? the uh-ohs?), let alone a cultural personality. And Hollywood isn't helping. The film industry, especially in the four-month peak-viewing period called summer, rarely tries squarely addressing Zeitgeist anxieties. Instead it ransacks its attic for sequels, spin-offs and, this year, remakes. You don't look forward to many of the new season's blockbuster hopefuls. You look backward...
...China's growing power was seen as a less worrying threat to Australia than any of the other nine options listed. Any remnants of Australia's historical panics about the threat from the north - the "yellow peril" - seem to have been consigned to a chest in the national attic...
...typical Friday night, the audience begins gathering early. After climbing three stories, they are greeted with bass-heavy music in a dark attic, crowded with folding chairs and tables laminated with a hodgepodge of articles—some about the Comedy Studio’s history and others that have sentimental value for Jenkins. The stage is less than a foot away from the closest audience members, and probably less than 10 yards from the farthest. The Hong Kong restaurant serves the audience with food, beer, and its trademark Scorpion Bowl, an inebriating concoction of hard liquors...