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...fact is that being Bob Greene is different from being most people. Greene's franchise was his benign appropriateness, from his defense of abused children to his adoration of Michael Jordan. His colleagues knew that a more complex reality lurked nearby. "Anybody who was close to Bob was saddened by the news," says deputy managing editor James Warren, "but not necessarily surprised." So far, four other women have publicly claimed that they had a sexual encounter with Greene, who has been married for 31 years. Says Neil Steinberg, a rival columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times who has spent...
...stand, unless there is a willingness to listen and concede—on both sides—in order to overcome the perilous dangers facing us all. Iraq is a huge test of our willingness and ability to work together on equal terms, until we arrive in more benign times...
...addicted to sleeping pills. His son is a pothead. The stepmother Mika (Isabelle Huppert) wanders about with a benign half-smile on her face, lacing the family's bedtime hot chocolate with a potent--and in her hands potentially lethal--soporific. The Swiss chateau is an unlikely stoner's paradise--and maybe, in Chabrol's mind, a metaphor for the way the bourgeois sleepwalk around their problems. Merci pour le Chocolat occasionally succumbs to Mika's legato rhythms, but it is more often a sly, subtle comedy about the oh-so-gentle art of murder. --By Richard Schickel
Almost daily, sniper bullets and small bands of fighters threaten American soldiers hunting al-Qaeda and Taliban members left behind in Afghanistan. But a more benign task entrusted to U.S. special forces stationed in Kabul--training the fledgling Afghan national army--is also proving dangerous. Funds for the endeavor are scarce, and weapons and ammunition are "not the quality you'd want at Fort Benning," says Lieut. Colonel Kevin McDonnell, who is responsible for the training. The Green Berets have resorted to tossing rocks to teach grenade handling and scrounging al-Qaeda and Taliban leftovers. Sometimes the troops launch risky...
...from within the bush is answered by a chorus of "checking," followed by individual shouts of "chalk" and "flour." Moments later a triumphant "on on!" rings out, a bugle sounds the battle charge, and the runners, dripping with sweat, burst from the underbrush. Casually slinging quips, jokes and benign insults with the easy camaraderie of old acquaintances, the 30-large herd mills around a clearing, in search of the next sign marked by chalk or flour to show where...