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...POPEYE JONES, Wizards reserve forward The life of an NBA backup is so grand. Make heaps of money to watch a game from the best seat in the house, and, if your team stinks (see: Wizards), you can split after a quick shower, because all the reporters are in the other locker room. That won't be the case for Washington this season. Instead of hitting the town to party right after the game, players like Jones now will have to answer 45 minutes' worth of questions about what it's like to play with Michael Jordan...
...done to disrupt their plans and arrest them? Technology is still important--night-vision gear, small handheld devices that monitor conversations and confirm identities--but more crucial will be a willingness to risk our personnel. Military intelligence will send our people into hostile situations under cover or with limited backup...
Most likely we will need more special-operations forces and not so many artillery outfits; more self-contained operational forces and less logistical backup. We will want to go in quick and light, with minimal time for planning and deployment, and the smallest possible footprint. We will need lighter-weight communications with longer-lasting batteries and new small arms effective at close quarters and longer ranges. We want to pack our punch into smaller, more mobile packages. If we need heavy firepower, we want to call it down from the sky rather than backpack it in. We will be putting...
...story. The tale could have ended like this: it was 1987 and Dylan was about to embark on a tour with the Grateful Dead when he decided to quit the music business. At that point, he had been mailing in his performances for years; he had even hired backup singers to distract audiences from the tired ruin of his voice. He couldn't even remember the lyrics to his best, most challenging songs, like Desolation Row and Queen Jane Approximately; what's more, he didn't want to remember them. "I'd become a different person since I'd written...
...their five children, Jakob, has gone on to become a rock star with his band the Wallflowers.) A book that came out this year, Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes, revealed that in 1986, Dylan had a child with one of his backup singers, Carolyn Dennis, and later married her. Although they are divorced, Dylan says he never tried to conceal the relationship. "It's not private to me," he says. "I've never tried to hide anything. I mean, not that I know of. I don't have any skeletons that...