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Thirteen years ago, Captain Garrett of the U.S. Marine Corps traded his camouflage utility uniform for the business-casual dress of a Circuit City service manager. The electronics company was booming, and Garrett could still get his dose of a soldier's life as a member of the Marine Reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Veterans' Enemy at Home | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...company declines to comment, saying only that it "supports the mission and values of the United States Armed Forces." But Garrett says the timing was no coincidence: he lost his job because of his military status. If true, that would violate a 1994 federal law. So Garrett sued Circuit City, only to see it spring yet another surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Veterans' Enemy at Home | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...June 4, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of broadcasters in a challenge against Federal Communications Commission sanctions for indecent and profane language. Among the penalized quotes was Richie's discussing her Simple Life experience on a live Fox awards show in 2003: "Have you ever tried to get cow s___ out of a Prada purse? It's not so f___ing simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush Became the Curser in Chief | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...France, 6 ft. 5 in. and with a booming voice, decided to bring order to a ragtag racing scene that sometimes saw promoters skip town without paying the drivers. He founded NASCAR in 1948, built the Daytona superspeedway in the 1950s, banished all dirt tracks from the circuit in 1970 (thus assuring more vroooom) and then handed the operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King of the Road: Bill France Jr. (1933-2007) | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...Once he quit the circuit, he turned to fiction writing and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop...

Author: By Kimberly E. Gittleson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard’s 8 Hottest Brainiacs | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

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