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...first time, require the creation of databases to monitor the deployment and cost of contractors. Only last fall did the Department of Defense conduct a poll of some contracting companies, which came back with the suspiciously round number of 100,000 contractors operating in Iraq. "An owner of a circus," says Peter Singer, author of Corporate Warriors, "faces more regulation and inspection than a private military company...
...Having recently buried a son, the Kellaway parents hope that the urban milieu will provide a respite from sorrowful memories and crushing rural poverty for their surviving children, 12-year-old Jem and his 14-year-old sister Maisie.Jem’s father finds steady carpentry work at circus impresario Philip Astley’s amphitheater on the outskirts of London. Jem and Maisie, having grown up in a community of thirty families, thus find themselves loosed on the raucous streets of the burgeoning metropolis.The street-smart and scrappy Maggie Butterfield takes Jem under her wing...
...clever mouse dancing between elephants." That's some rodent. Every new MobiTV product or service touches a multitude of partners and involves infrastructure, new technologies (for server, handset and network), testing, integration with carriers, marketing and sales support, business development and contract negotiations. "It's a real three-ring circus," he says. "You have to make sure that no one drops anything as they juggle. It's a huge coordination exercise...
...Clergue’s individuality. Downstairs, among throngs of nudes, one wall of the showroom hosts several of Clergue’s epic photographs of El Cordobés, the dauntless Andalusian matador. “Danseuse aux Affiches,” from his eerie series of young itinerant circus performers entitled “Saltimbanques,” hangs on the same wall. Sadly, it is the only print from “Saltimbanques,” and its quiet innocence is engulfed by the vigor and sexuality of the surrounding photographs. Though the show is full of photographic...
...Denenberg stoically overcame the furious shots and circus antics of Mihai Nichifor to win 7-6, 4-6, 10-5. Denenberg won the concluding super-tiebraker going away while his opponent amused the crowd and angered the officials with groans, curses, and a brief dropping of his shorts...