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...each show also goes in, at least figuratively, with a military escort. The producers are "casting" their shows and say they have final cut, though they will screen episodes for the military to ensure they don't give away secrets. But Washington can pull the plug anytime. And however well done the series are, they could become, for lack of comparable journalistic access, the most vivid, complete and lasting images of the conflict for many Americans while, say, misdirected military strikes vanish into...
...group's Olympic gig next Saturday? The scene had all the requisite elements of a boy band's arrival: fans professing their undying love; a crush of journalists recording the star's every move; desperate autograph seekers (with minders restraining the most persistent of them); and a police escort to help the hero escape the crush...
...fallen off and an uneasy normalcy has settled in. At Mitrovica's Serbian Orthodox church, for example, Father Svetislav Nojic, 64, continues to hold sparsely attended Sunday liturgies, though worshipers must travel under armed guard to get there from the Serb side of town. Nojic says he needs an escort just to take a walk in his tiny garden. Still, most days he ventures out to tend his congregation north of the Ibar, hunkered down in an armored personnel carrier. "I have been a priest for 47 years," he says. "I plan to stay here and die here...
Griffin volunteers his own time as well. Wednesdays he spends at the Children’s Hospital in Boston. “We work as an escort service. Not escorting nurses,” he says, almost automatically, without pausing in his narrative to see if anyone will give him an appreciative chuckle. Griffin’s job actually entails escorting patients from ultrasound rooms to hospital rooms and anywhere else they need to be. With the floppy white hair and stream of self-deprecating and ridiculous humor, Steve Griffin seems like he would be a comforting person...
...pauses as she notices a police car following beside the team bus. “I think we might be getting pulled over,” she says, “unless...oh, it’s a police escort.” For this prefrosh, who hopes to be on the Wheaties box one day and will don a good luck shin guard strap she’s had since childhood during the Olympics, it’s all about enjoying her 15 minutes of fame...