Word: desertion
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...Salt Lake Desert News ran a Times feed last month under the headline “Disliked Harvard President Promises to Be Nice...
...graduating, he went straight to boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. He fought in Desert Storm, made sergeant in three years, and left as a scout sniper with a bunch of medals. But in 1993 he left the Marines and returned to Manhattan. He took night classes at New York University and worked by day as an energy trader for Goldman Sachs. After earning a degree in economics, he co-founded Filter Media, a company focusing on interactive TV. He grew long hair and wore flamboyant clothes. In 1999 he met a former model who had worked with the photographer...
...Khan. Cresques doesn't skimp on detail. He crams each of the Atlas' eight leaves with brilliant illuminations of myths (both biblical and classical), Kings, flags, ships and monsters, as well as the first known depiction of a Silk Road caravan, with caped traders' riding camels across the Taklimakan desert in what is now China's Xinjiang province...
...swear every Mummy and/or Indiana Jones movie begins this way: an archaeological site in the desert, and the brown-skinned, blue-collar laborer who discovers the one artifact all WASPier scholarly types have been hunting. Then the information that the Spear of Destiny was last seen during World War II —it must have been the Nazi backup plan after the whole Holy Grail debacle in Alexandretta. Constantine’s ride, the Angel City cab, even uses the transportation-name-as-witty-commentary trick of A Streetcar Named Desire, or more recently, The Royal Tenenbaums?...
...they can, within the limits of the medium. But in the fog of virtual war the lines between education, entertainment and propaganda can get pretty blurry. After I took part in a heated session on a combat simulator, dodging RPGs and blasting away at street fighters in a nameless desert city, Major Zeegers asked me, "So, is killing Afghans fun?" It was hard to tell whether he was joking...