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...begin to fathom what he and others endure in Iraq every day-car bombs, roadside rockets, booby-trapped bodies and Iraqi civilians who act like your friend one day and shoot at you the next. To all the armchair generals who criticize what happened at the mosque, I say grab a gun and try living a Marine's life for a few weeks and see how you would react. The U.S. holds its soldiers to a higher level of moral behavior, but war is war and sometimes mistakes are made. If this Marine is found guilty of a crime...
...clear for months. But Weinberg is used to taking gambles. A graduate of France's élite Ecole Nationale d'Administration, he gave up a safe career in government to become an investment banker before moving to PPR in 1992. At the time, the firm was a messy grab bag of French-focused industrial and retail companies. Weinberg masterminded the shift to luxury. "The demonstration needs to be made that several brands can really flourish in a multibrand group," he says. He plans to be the man who proves it. --By Peter Gumbel/Paris
Engagement shares with Tarantino’s work an intense, painful depiction of graphic violence: early on, each of the five men is shown wounding himself in hopes of going home—they shoot themselves in the hand and cry out, grab onto the barrels of hot machine guns and writhe in pain. But here, it serves a different purpose: rather than extending the narrative, it gives it greater meaning. Under its influence, characters are humanized, and actions which might otherwise seem horrible or disgusting become understandable...
...latest string of Internet questionnaires (“memes”) that have graced my monitor have consisted mostly of questions that I wouldn’t answer in such a public forum. Instead, I will devise my own list especially tailored to our lives. Grab a pen and join in the fun! And if you know the etymology of “meme,” please shoot me an email. Here I present to you this year’s stats, divided into easily digestible categories. (Who says humanities people can’t do math...
...Chessmaster, that’s just what I am. I’m a Life National Master in the U.S. Chess Federation. But that’s too long to fit on the sign or to grab people’s attention...