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That was the objective when the Iraqi government announced in March that they had executed an infamous psychopath and insurgent hit man named Shukair Farid, "the butcher of Mosul," whose gang slaughtered more than 200 during a yearlong rampage in the northern city. Farid, a police lieutenant, had gained fame after appearing on the hit reality-TV interrogation show Terrorism in the Hands of Justice, on which he told in gruesome detail of the scores of Iraqi lives he took, often using his uniform to trap victims. Farid didn't go easily. On the morning the convoy of Iraqi officials...
...their bayonets into place by the middle of 2001. It was only the al-Qaeda attacks that saved Rumsfeld's job later that year, many Pentagon insiders believe. Overnight, he achieved pop-culture status, his stern countenance and parrying of press questions bringing him a peculiar kind of Washington fame in those scary weeks following 9/11. Yet it was the pair of wars launched in the wake of those terror strikes that, over time, highlighted on a far bigger stage his short-sighted and subordinate-ruffling demeanor. The cracks in his management acumen began showing as the insurgency surged...
...Puchtel’s fifteen minutes of fame might not be over yet. Last May, the Chicago Bears offered Puchtel a tryout, despite the fact that Puchtel had not played football since catching passes at tight end for the Crimson his freshman year. Although the transition back to football was difficult, he showed signs of progression—enough for him to pick up an agent and continue to explore his NFL options. The allure for teams rests in the hope that he can follow in the model of successful college basketball players-turned superstar tight ends such as Antonio...
...This owes to Burns’ fame for off-color jokes, the most recent of which concerns the immigration status of his house painter. Everyone has their favorite Conrad Burns line. I have two. Conrad Burns walks into a federal office building where a young white girl with a nose stud is working as a receptionist. Inquires the Senator: “What tribe are you from?” On a cold December day in Washington, D.C. some years ago when I was a Senate page, Senator Burns entered the Republican cloakroom and declared, “It?...
...Madonna and her husband, Guy Ritchie, were granted temporary custody of a 13-month-old Malawian orphan named David Banda. This sparked a storm of accusations, ranging from the criminal - that Madonna used her fame to bypass adoption procedures - to the scathing: that Madonna is a dilettante, treating an African child as this season's must-have accessory. The legal issue has been laid to rest - no laws were violated - but Madonna still had plenty to get off her chest in a rare print interview with TIME's Josh Tyrangiel...