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...sensible person. We understand completely, feel guilty for putting her on the spot, and nod in thanks for her laughter. “Don’t hitchhike!” a doughy-faced, middle-aged woman scolds from the passenger seat of a mini van. This is the fifth car. Things are looking up.“I know,” Simon says apologetically, letting his arms and legs fall into a full body shrug. “We feel so bad, we’re so sorry.”“Where are you going...

Author: By Francesca M. Mari, | Title: The Hitchhiking Type | 7/13/2006 | See Source »

...stage deep in the fifth set where I was about to ask the umpire, 'Can we just arm-wrestle for it?'" MARK KNOWLES, Bahamian tennis player who, together with doubles partner Daniel Nestor, defeated Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry after 6 hr. 9 min. of play in Wimbledon's longest-ever match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...sister. Five other soldiers have been charged, four of them for conspiring with Green and one for dereliction of duty for not reporting the crimes. The grisly March 12 slayings--in which Abeer's skull was smashed and her legs and torso set on fire--sparked the military's fifth investigation into U.S. personnel accused of murdering Iraqi civilians. But unlike the massacre in Haditha, where Marines are suspected of shooting up to 24 innocent people in November following the death of a beloved comrade, the butchering of Abeer's family does not appear to be the result of vengeance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soldier's Shame | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

...other soldiers abandoned the traffic checkpoint they were manning 20 miles south of Baghdad, in a region littered with roadside bombs, before heading to Abeer's house. Some of them had been drinking, and all but one had changed out of their uniforms, allegedly to avoid easy identification. A fifth soldier, who remained at the checkpoint to monitor the radio, said that when the men returned in bloodied clothes, each of them told him not to speak of the incident again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soldier's Shame | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

...saying he has so little political experience that Connecticut voters had to ask "who is Ned Lamont?" He was dismissive of Lamont, shaking his head at some of his answers and frequently interrupting him to throw him off guard. At one point, after Leiberman said Lamont had taken "his fifth position" on Iraq withdrawal and Lamont responded by largely restating his view that the U.S should withdraw troops soon, Lieberman sighed and noted Lamont had taken his sixth position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lieberman Punches, but Lamont Remains Standing | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

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