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...court martial. The incident happened when Gardner, who told me he had ?no trouble shooting gooks,? saw a Viet Cong guerilla with an AK-47 in a boat and started firing. ?I lay the hammer down on him,? Gardner explains. ?I just put a finger on the gun: boom, boom, boom, boom. He?s done. He got flipped out of the boat, he went straight down. That?s when Kerry came running out of the guntub screaming ?ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire.? Then he turned to me and said, ?I ought to have you court-martialed for shooting.? I said, ?Hmmph?sorry...
...measures, the $10 billion secondary market for live events is a model of inefficiency. "There's a great deal of time and energy wasted," says Princeton University economist Alan Krueger, who has studied ticket prices. But an upstart business, StubHub.com which was launched near the end of the Internet boom, may yet succeed in changing this landscape. The site is a NASDAQ for tickets, and unlike eBay, StubHub guarantees the transaction and thus a seat. Its home page directs you to concerts, sports or theater events, and after its program crunches the credit-card numbers and finalizes a trade...
Rail's Big Comeback Rising imports from China and improved technology spell a boom for railroads like BNSF...
Madvillain’s forthcoming Madvillainy is possibly the best offering yet from two of the last heads still making truly exuberant boom-bap. Madlib and MF “Metal Face” Doom are both obsessed with samples: the former remixed Blue Note’s back catalog in Shades of Blue and fashioned himself a rapper on helium by essentially sampling and speeding up his own voice in Quasimoto’s The Unseen; the latter reworked tacky Eighties hits and cartoon themes into eerily poignant hooks on Operation Doomsday. Both are bold enough to let their...
...show started with “What’s In It For Me,” immediately exposing Leithauser’s characteristic swooping and diving boom of a voice over fuzzy, layered organ chords. Also the first track on Bows, the song seems a logical album opener, but Leithauser says he originally opposed using it to start the record. “Actually, I was the only one against it,” he says. “I thought I sounded too sensitive or fragile or something for it to be the first thing people hear...