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...Posh Spice) have between them graced the covers of more fashion magazines than anyone can remember. Their arrival in L.A., a natural home for the perennially bronzed and beautiful couple, gives Major League Soccer its first crossover celebrity, whose very presence in America is likely to give a significant bump to interest in and attendance at its games. Nor will Beckham be alone among waning stars in crossing the Atlantic: His deal was made possible by change in MLS rules to allow each team to sign one player outside of the limits of an existing salary cap that prevented Americans...
...President that the Army and the Marine Corps both be significantly increased over the next few years. Gates proposed that the Army grow by 65,000, to 547,000 and the Marine Corps grow to 202,000, an increase of 27,000. Both services have been calling for bump-ups for years, and some observers believe the the service chiefs' official support of the new strategy is the trade-off for getting their overall increases approved. Gates will also abandon the Pentagon policy of restricting National Guard and reserve troops to two years of combat duty for every five served...
...Gates stressed he would be his own man at Defense: he didn't seek out the Pentagon job, Gates told the senators, and he isn't returning to Washington now just to "be a bump on a log." "I don't owe anybody anything," he declared. Already, Gates seems to be distancing himself from the White House contention that Iraq was the central front in the war on terror. Iraq is "an important front," Gates conceded, but not the only one; the U.S. faces a "dispersed threat" from other parts of the world...
...Dean Gilbert. “I don’t know if they’re used to that.”IN OTHER ACTIONEven though the Crimson extended its nation-best winning streak to eight games in sweeping a Top 10 squad, don’t expect a bump in the new rankings, as all the top teams took care of business this weekend. No. 1 Mercyhurst took two games from Princeton, the second victory a 1-0 overtime nail-biter on Saturday, in which the Lakers outshot the Tigers, 48-9. In the ECAC, St. Lawrence, Clarkson...
...Precision Intervention Technique - is essentially what Bullitt was trying to pull off when he hit the black Charger in the left-rear door. If you bump another car in just the right spot, the car will spin and come safely to a stop. That's the theory, anyhow, and Scott's supervisor gave the go ahead to "take...