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Some of the special-forces troops in Iraq had seen it all before--12 years ago, to be exact. Long before the war with Iraq began, officials at the U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Fla., combed service records for names of commandos who had seen action in 1991's Operation Provide Comfort, which gave food and shelter to Kurdish refugees after Saddam crushed their rebellion. The goal: to lure these American soldiers out of private life and back into action. "We wanted them for the places they'd been and the people they knew," said a top officer. Army...
...broom, talk to snakes and grow gills like a fish, but he can no more easily cope with his crushing sadness about his dead parents than any other child. "She mixes the real-life struggles in with the imaginary, magic struggles," says Casey Brewer, 15, of Longwood, Fla. "Harry and his friends have to think through the obstacles in life the same as they have to think through an obstacle that's a three-headed dog. It's, like, inspirational...
...garner far more publicity if it spent that money supporting the performing arts. It would earn my respect for making responsible community-minded donations. I support companies that display common sense. Ninety million just to wear shoes? It chills me to the sole. DON E. JONES JR. Safety Harbor, Fla...
DIED. TONY ROMA, 78, restaurant magnate, who opened his first barbecue shop with his partner, chef David Smith, in North Miami, Fla., in the 1970s and expanded it into an international empire; of cancer; in Hemet, Calif. His enterprise went global after a Texas financier, on a jaunt to the Super Bowl, dropped by Roma's eatery for a meal and wound up buying into the business. Today there are more than 225 Famous for Ribs restaurants scattered over five continents...
...spammers flood the Internet with ads nobody wants to read? Because some people do read them, and a tiny fraction actually respond--which in the world of direct marketing is like money in the e-bank. Take former spammer Scott Hirsch of Boca Raton, Fla., who sold his e-mail marketing business last year for $135 million and retired at the age of 37. Florida is home to more spammers than any other state, and Hirsch--who started his first bulk e-mail list way back in 1996--likes to take credit for helping make Boca Raton "the spam capital...