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...Joneses, adds another dimension to the family dynamic. She takes on the role of the controlling grandmother, except that when she pesters Jenn about getting a boyfriend, it isn’t because she’d like to see her granddaughter happy, but because she wants to drive up sales...
...workshops are kind of a test-drive for auditions,” she said. “Hopefully we’ll give people a chance to see what it’s like, and hopefully they’ll try out in the fall...
...there's something to be said for the American way. In 2008, after thinly spread British forces had effectively lost control of Basra to Shi'ite militias, the Iraqi army turned to the U.S. for support to drive out the insurgents. The British, though nominally heading up the coalition forces in the region, played a subsidiary role and, according to some reports, only found out about the operation once it was under...
...hardly surprising that some soldiers question their presence in Afghanistan. "When we went to Kosovo, we knew what we were there to do - to drive out the bully boys. I didn't know what we were supposed to be doing in Iraq," says one army sergeant who asked that his name not be used. Now in Afghanistan, he considered leaving. "But then I'd have lost my job, my friends," he says. Ferocious loyalty to their comrades and regiments sustains soldiers in the teeth of dangers and privations. "We are going into the heart of darkness," Lieut. Colonel Matt Bazeley...
...walk," the local police chief told him. "We have to drive." And so they drove - 20 km west of Senjaray and then south. They were nowhere near town. "You might well ask, Why there?" Ellis says. Well, as it happened both Hajji Lala and the police chief owned farmland just south of the proposed canal. "But who was I to stand in the way of progress?" Ellis adds, dryly. "I could put hundreds of people to work, pay them 600 Afghans [$3] a day." It was the beginning of a partnership. Ellis wanted to prove he could produce. The project...