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...died an ordinary death in Iraq, at least by today's standards: a roadside bomb exploded as she led her platoon in a convoy south of Baghdad on Sept. 12. But what makes this death so difficult in a sea of violence is just how extraordinary this particular soldier...
...Well, shortly into the proceedings at Cannes, the film stopped for real. My first thought was: Sheer brilliance! They're undermining the most basic cinema convention: that a movie proceeds uninterrupted from beginning to end. In fact, there had been a bomb threat; Cannes had a few of them in those days. The audience was shooed onto the sidewalk for a few minutes while police searched the theater, then readmitted to watch the rest of the film without further incident...
...doing for comedy in the '70s what the Beatles did for pop music in the '60s. They extended Britain's primacy of Cool through a decade that, in other respects, was pretty bleak. Not that a Silly Walk through Harrod's could lessen the likelihood of an IRA bomb, or a thought of the Parrot sketch could warm a body through a winter rendered heatless by the oil embargo. But the Pythons lightened the load. Whatever the real-life ordeal, their dose of surreal fun was medicine for fretful minds. They helped prove Britain could take...
Isaacs was given 72 hours to live after a bomb slammed his humvee in Mosul in December 2003. He arrived at Walter Reed intact, but successive surgeries chipped away at both his legs. After returning home to Roxboro, N.C., Isaacs, 25, was invited to speak at churches and became a minor celebrity among Fundamentalist Baptists...
...bomb in Mosul in November 2003 took Rodriguez's right leg as well as the only job the hard-driving combat medic had ever wanted. But Rodriguez, 37, who won a Bronze Star for bravery in Iraq, found a way to stay in uniform, teaching his craft at Fort Campbell in Kentucky...