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...Iraq during served in Desert Storm and is a former assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. His son, Tony, also served in Iraq and lost an arm when he was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. (See Iraq Photos Here.) (View a brief history of the Iraq War here...
...cold-blooded murderer when you eat it. In the 150th anniversary issue of The Atlantic last year, he nihilistically stated an unpopular truth about liberty: The cost of freedom is that you have to occasionally let 3,000 people die in terrorist attacks. His 1999 collection of short stories, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - which John Krasinski has adapted into a movie to be released later this year - damns his gender as a greedy, cold, oversexed marauders...
...promotions, seduction and his own laissez-faire cowardice. Casting a flinty hero type like Mortensen in the role of a moral weakling seems inspired, but the movie isn't. Its attention to period detail and emotional nuance is lax, plodding, lacking either the grinding power of inevitability or a brief, fierce glint of Halder's conflicted conscience. As he is sucked into the morass, the film and the viewer sink with...
...behind both Dartmouth (308-317-625) and Brown (311-318-629) heading into Sunday. “Losing on Saturday put us in our place a bit,” junior Sarah Harvey (79-78-157) said. Like all good teams, however, Harvard was able to bounce back. A brief rain delay only postponed the inevitable, as every Crimson player competing for the team bettered her first-round score. Captain Ali Bode (77-74-151) finished in fourth, and junior Claire Sheldon (79-73-152) fifth. “We were afraid we were going to get rained...
...simple: you never go wrong assuming the worst. "I hate scumbags," Turk says. "I like shooting people." He explains that he joined the police force for the badge and the gun. "Most people respect a badge. Everybody respects a gun." After a few suspicious homicides, both men undergo a brief psychiatric evaluation. When the shrink asks, "How do you feel when innocent people get killed?" Rooster replies, "You know, I sorta got numb to it." He's been around too long for remorse; that just slows down the trigger-finger reflex, gets...