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Peril lurks around every corner. Even in Ramadi, a Sunni town that the U.S. military considers under its control, the Marines are ambushed nearly every day by insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades. Convoys passing through the city must navigate a minefield of roadside bombs. The violence has made it impossible to carry out missions to win the hearts and minds of the locals, most of whom have never warmed to the U.S. presence. The Marines in Ramadi don't use tanks and rarely call in air support; instead, they rely on guile, guts and instinct to hunt down the insurgents...
...women tend to view negotiations as having two goals: getting the result you want and maintaining (or improving) your relationship with the person on the other side. For example, when you're negotiating your salary with your boss, explains Lois Frankel, author of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, you want to preserve a cordial working relationship. But it's important to recognize that some negotiations really have only one goal. And when you're negotiating for a car, getting the best price is all that matters. With that in mind, here are three key negotiating tips...
...area to raise some money. But if you live in Ohio or Wisconsin or Florida or Pennsylvania, you are getting more attention from the presidential campaigns than you would expect in a hotly contested school-board race. In the town of Portsmouth in Ohio's depressed southeastern corner, the turnout was high when President Bush visited last month. He was, after all, the first President that Portsmouth's citizens had seen in person since Herbert Hoover in 1932. Thousands cheered Kerry at his rally in Newark, the seat of Licking County. They were celebrating what local records said...
...host of a World's Fair--but it's a pretty quiet place on a Tuesday night. You can look both ways before you cross the street if you really want to, but it's just a formality. I sat on a park bench. A dude on the corner played the saxophone. Some punks on dirt bikes made fun of me. The silence was eerie. Zombie-movie eerie...
...back on," he says, referring to the lucrative stand-up tour he did in 2001. "But I believe that with acting, people will find you if you have talent. And I have talent." Sure enough, Michael Mann eventually saw Any Given Sunday and hired Foxx to play the worshipful corner man, Drew (Bundini) Brown, in Ali. He drew plaudits--and more bad scripts. Then Taylor Hackford called...