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...Army memo, written in May, projects that the service will lack half the seasoned captains it needs next year. To help slow the dropout rate, the Army has offered a $20,000 re-enlistment bonus. Senior officers have been encouraged to pull younger ones aside and encourage them to stay. "There is a captain shortage," said an Army spokeswoman. "We're doing what we can. We have a lot of deployments...
...comic explanation for his spotty hunting record (the "lifelong hunter" has been on two hunts - "for small varmints, if you will"). And there's the for-junkies-only joke, resurrecting a six-month-old charge that Romney's landscaping company employed illegal immigrants from Guatemala. As an added bonus, the riff could also be a slyly self-deprecating poke at the exact persona Team Romney seeks to remind voters of: The angry old man, yelling at neighborhood kids to "Get off my lawn...
...half expected to be attacked by a barbarian horde bearing pikes and torches on Monday, when we increased the number of bonus armies a team receives for successfully controlling an entire region of the map. The reaction was fast and quite furious. “REPLAY LAST ROUND!” one player exclaimed. “What a douchy rule,” another hissed. “I’m continually amazed at what some of the smartest students in the world can screw...
...Many musicians release self-titled records, and when it's not a debut, it's often is marketing as indicating a spiritual or artistic rebirth - or maybe just a new record deal. For Keren Ann, it's nothing of the sort. "I hadn't used my eponymous bonus," she jokes. Actually, she says she typically has a title in mind throughout the writing and recording of an album, but this time wanted no title...
...Dawson said. “Midway through the seventh round I started receiving calls from teams offering contracts. Before the end of the seventh round I had six teams offer contracts and it was just a matter of finding the best offer and negotiating the best signing bonus.” And negotiate he did. The back fielded multiple calls from different coaches on multiple phone lines at once in what he called “a whirlwind,” before making his decision. The Colts will apparently provide him with overly generous financial compensation...