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...fired but found nothing. Down the street, a 32-year-old woman had caught a bullet in the throat during the cross fire. After it was all over, Fox, 26, showed off the M-16 magazines on his vest that had exploded when the bullet hit them. The flak vest saved his life. Inside his breast pocket, the picture he keeps of his daughter Amanda, 4, survived the shooting without harm...
...suggest some small changes to the dossier text, they kept control of it, and in particular, originated the provocative claim that Iraq had WMD ready to deploy in 45 minutes. So most observers expect the fac to exonerate him of the "sexing up" charge, though he will likely take flak for issuing a second paper last February that mixed up new intelligence information with an old graduate thesis on Saddam's power structure that one of his aides plagiarized from the Internet. And so Campbell is likely to emerge from the fray, still Europe's most powerful political image maker...
...pajamas to the front. The fearless Huet, who grew up in Nazi-occupied France, once returned to Saigon bleeding from a shrapnel wound but famously dropped off his film at his agency's office before seeking treatment. As a boy, Shimamoto watched American B-29 incendiary bombers weave through flak above nighttime Tokyo (a "beautiful sight," he recalled). Potter's childhood was a different kind of battleground. His mother overdosed on sleeping pills that he, then a teenager, had fetched for her. He was so desperate to experience the Vietnam War that he enlisted in the Marine Corps, despite...
...views on the war in Iraq—and it is preposterous to suggest that a man as savvy and opinionated as Larry Summers might lack any—he owes us a public, clear statement on the topic, even if that means opening himself to sometimes-absurd flak. Let’s hear it, Larry...
...Responding to Maita's call, the 29 year-old Barbe jumped from his cot, donned his flight suit, boots, flak vest and chest plate, strapped on his 9mm pistol and survival vest, and stepped into his monkey harness - the safety strap that allows him to move around in the open-air back of a speeding helicopter...