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...Swofford's best-selling memoir of his service in the 1991 Gulf War. There is, however, this important difference between this film and its predecessors: these guys never get to fire a shot. They are all dressed up in stifling combat gear but they have no place to go, except over the next berm (or dune) where they find nothing but more emptiness, more sand, which, if you want to get all fancy and symbolic about it, matches the emptiness inside them...
...while not indicted has still emerged as a player in the scandal; and chief of staff Andrew Card, who gets some of the blame for bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina and even more for the botched Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers. "All relationships with the President, except for his relationship with Laura, have been damaged recently," the White House adviser says. The closest aide who is undamaged is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice--who is off minding the rest of the world--and, of course, Bush himself. "The funny thing is everybody's failing now, in which case...
...policemen everywhere in Paharganj: they have sealed off Main Bazar, the street where the blast went off, and only allow journalists and foreign tourists living in the hotels back into the street. The garish hotel lights on Main Bazar are mostly dimmed tonight; the street is eerie and deserted, except for the tourists...
...Garden Street lies opposite the dimly-lit Cambridge Common and only a short walk away from various Graduate School of Education (GSE) buildings. GSE student Cynthia Lee, who works at nearby Gutman Library, said that she considers Cambridge Common somewhat unsafe. “I feel safe everywhere except for the Common because I hear it’s not safe to walk there at night,” Lee said. “I walked through the Common last night at 11 [p.m.], briskly and very cautiously. It was for the first time and it was like an ordeal...
...America, and it’s one of the funniest shows on TV.The best way to describe it is as a “British ‘Friends,’” in that it has a three-boy, three-girl cast…except this show is way better than “Friends.” The comedy in “Coupling” manages to actually make insightful observations into romance, and somehow wraps them all in a wittily cheerful package.One of the beautiful things about British shows is that, due to their...