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...disdained by real warriors. But the desire for large set-piece battles-like the invasion of Iraq-has proved a diversion from the actual struggle against Islamist terrorism, which requires high-powered police work, with special forces taking the lead. Similarly, "counterinsurgency is essentially special-forces work," says Colonel Edward Short, director of the Army's coin Center for Excellence in Iraq. "It should be considered an elite operation, requiring special skills. As we draw down our troop levels, the only show in town is going to be advisers. We should be stripping out the very best officers and noncoms...
Sources: The Rough Riders and An Autobiography, by Theodore Roosevelt; The War with Spain in 1898, by David F. Trask; San Juan Hill 1898, by Angus Konstam; The Spanish-American War, An American Epic, 1898, by G.J.A. O'Toole; The Spanish-American War, by Edward F. Dolan...
...foraged through other Asian film industries, not as colonizers but explorers, and found colorful native trinkets in countries that rarely saw their films released in stateside theaters. The result of their treks was what they now call the New York Asian Film Festival, or NYAFF - which sounds like an Edward G. Robinson negative but is still more respectable than the festival?s original name: Asian Films Are Go!, or AFAG...
...playwright since, Gow has never sought to recapture the butterfly spirit of Away. "I have a short attention span," he says. Instead he wrote the stage equivalent of a fingers-up sign to the Australian Bicentennial with 1841, took an Edward Albee-esque look at modern marriage in Sweet Phoebe (in which Cate Blanchett made her British stage debut) and, most recently, had actors perform The Iliad in underpants (Live Acts on Stage). But it is as a director that Gow is now making his mark. As artistic director of the Queensland Theatre Company since 1999, he has energetically championed...
...article on Russia would appear mysteriously in Harvard mailboxes, advance copies of his book galleys were distributed across Hollywood, setting the town abuzz.Hollywood’s fascination with McClintick might not be over. Film rights for “Indecent Exposure” are in the hands of Edward R. Pressman, producer of “Wall Street,” and he notes an “Indecent Exposure” film is “in development” on his website.“Indecent Exposure” was nominated for the National Book Award...