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...Beverly and Jenks are recovering from surgery in the intensive-care ward of the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad. In a way, they seem as boyish as they did before the attack. While a DVD of Lord of the Rings plays on Beverly's laptop, Jenks laments that his PlayStation 2 console is on its way to Iraq just as he is being sent back to Germany. Both show visitors plastic cups that contain shrapnel fragments removed from their bodies. There is no bitterness or self-pity. Says Beverly: "You've always got to expect the worst...
...Schermerhorn speaks, Kamont and Winston recline on the secondhand couches that adorn the platoon's common area. They stare at a television hooked up to a portable DVD player that serves up a steady stream of war movies, sci fi, horror and porn. In front of the TV is a coffee table littered with picked-over ready-to-eat meals, Tootsie Rolls and water bottles filled with tobacco juice. Heat comes from three portable radiators. The platoon's house--the hooch, as the G.I.s call it--lies within the perimeter of the Azimiya palace compound, built by Saddam...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Despite leaving the Dunkin’ Donuts Center with a DVD player for each player, not to mention all coaches and staff, the Harvard men’s hockey team had a disappointing post-holiday weekend in the first ever Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee Pot Tournament...
...Heaven’s sake, leave the Puritans alone. In a Dec. 4 column in The Washington Post bewailing the violent commercialization of Christmas (literally violent: apparently, Wal-Mart shoppers recently trampled a woman in their quest to buy bargain-priced DVD players), George Will unimaginatively blames the Puritans for the carnage...
...your kids already have every SpongeBob DVD and game and still want more, the Nickelodeon Toon Twister 3-D from Scholastic ($20; Windows only) should keep them busy--at least for a while. The software helps you direct your own cartoon. First you pick characters, props and scenes from a list of more than 100not from just SpongeBob but from The Fairly OddParents, Jimmy Neutron and Rugrats too. Once you have selected actors, you click and drag them through motions, giving them actions (dance, throw a tantrum) or lines (funny quotes from the shows or even your own words...