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...assembled to make the charge across the bridge is black with raining oil and shrapnel and smoke. Marines are shouting, hitting the ground, running for cover. The round has slammed into an amphibious assault vehicle just five feet away from me, landing between the gunner's turret and the driver's hatch. Marines pull injured buddies away from the smoking wreck. Blood mixes with oil on the vehicle's metal ramp. They cover bodies--two of them--and carry four injured to a field ambulance. "Get his weapon; we're going to need it," one shouts as a machine gunner...
...what may be the cutest couple the human species has ever produced. Seriously, if they ever have a kid, it's gonna come out a Care Bear. The two are notorious for dating their co-stars--she has been linked with Russell Crowe (Proof of Life), he with Minnie Driver (Grosse Pointe Blank)--but here is something romantic: when they got together, Cusack gave up his last remaining shred of indie credibility. It must be love...
...falling dollar--it's down 19% against the euro in the past 12 months--is another driver behind the recent exceptional returns of international-bond funds. These funds on average have returned 16% in the past 12 months, vs. 9% for the average U.S. government--bond fund, according to fund tracker Morningstar. In response, investors have shifted $1.5 billion into international-bond funds this year. Even if the buck stabilizes, the foreign yield advantage makes diversifying this way worthwhile, and funds are the way to do it. The relative attractiveness of any one country's bonds can shift quickly...
...This morning we sped along the road back toward Tikrit. I dozed a little, no longer looking for dangers all along the road, until we suddenly saw figures running away from a large gas station, and heard long bursts of automatic fire. My driver Karim, who had not fully recovered from the previous day, saw other cars turning in front of us, did a U-turn and floored the gas. I forced him to stop and we checked the situation with oncoming vehicles...
...this time, Karim the driver was melting down. His behavior was so irrational that I feared he could get us into even deeper trouble. When a local villager negotiated a pass through the combat area for a group of press cars, Karim deliberately made us miss the convoy by slowly, slowly unscrewing the car's number plate. The Arabs would not like the plate, he muttered - incomprehensible, as the previous day he said we had Baghdad plates, perfect for this part of the country. Removing the plates was, in itself, a dangerous act given the inflamed situation. The tribesmen could...