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...first hamlet, and the Marines fan out, searching houses. A loudspeaker blasts a message in Arabic: Stay in your houses. We are here to help. "This is a place taken out of thousands of years ago when Jesus was walking the earth still," says Corporal Omar Monge, 20, driver for the battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Bryan P. McCoy. A village elder approaches the battalion translator. Tell everyone not to be scared, he is told. But tell them if they shoot one bullet they will be very scared. We will shoot 2,000 bullets back...
...hamlet of Hajil, American helicopters overhead report white pickups, the preferred ride for the fedayeen, leaving town. A yellow-and-white taxi makes the mistake of pulling out in front of a tank, and the machine gunner opens up. Rounds explode across the car, and the driver is hit in the thigh and the back. He is treated and medevacked...
...WANT IT MORE THAN YOU DID BACK IN 1981 WITH RAGING BULL? You know, I never thought I'd get it then either. Particularly when I wasn't even nominated for Taxi Driver. And certainly when I didn't get it on Raging Bull. I just said, fine, I got to make the picture. And that's the rationale that has kept me going. With Goodfellas it was a little bit hard on my parents, I MUST SAY. That hurt a little bit. They were there. but I keep thinking, it's a good thing I didn't, because...
DIED. JEAN-LUC LAGARDERE, 75, French industrialist who built a small defense subcontractor into one of Europe's largest conglomerates and whose holdings include the company that makes Airbus jets and the Hachette magazine group, publisher of Car and Driver and Elle; of sudden complications after a hip operation; in Paris...
Jean-Luc Lagardere trained as an engineer at Marcel Dassault's aircraft-design business in the 1950s and went on to run a small Dassault subcontractor called Matra. In 1980 he diversified into media by acquiring magazine group Hachette and today publishes 222 titles, including Paris Match, Car and Driver and Elle. A foray into TV almost bankrupted Matra, but it recovered, and the publicly traded firm--now called Lagardere Group--with $14 billion in annual sales is weathering the economic downturn. Through aggressive dealmaking, he has spun his stake in Matra into a 15% share of EADS, which makes...