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Australian soldiers serving in Iraq as part of Operation Catalyst have become accustomed to bad news and unwanted publicity. The mysterious death of sniper Private Jake Kovco in his room in a Baghdad barracks in April-and a bungle over the repatriation of his body-was a private tragedy that escalated into a public-relations disaster for the Australian Defence Force and the Howard government. Now the ADF's image is under assault again. Last month, a man claiming to have served eight years in the Australian Army published on Youtube.com pictures and videos that appear to feature serious wrongdoing...
...Jake Plummer, the club's former QB, who led the team to its January 1999 play-off victory against the Dallas Cowboys, blames the downturn on the loss of experienced players like Lomas Brown and Larry Centers to free agency because the Bidwills didn't want to pay up. Comparing his Broncos careerhe was 13-3 last season with his Cardinals stint, Plummer says consistency makes all the difference. "I've had the same linemen in front of me for the last three years. Keeping a nice, tight group of guys goes a long way toward winning...
...investment possibilities and start-up capital that this country badly needs. Although Ghana is in much better shape than many other African countries, its GDP is $9.4 billion, or about $420 per capita, which ranks below most Asian countries. "The potential for economic impact is very significant," says Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, Ghana's Minister for Tourism and Diasporan Relations. "As you look around now, you see the role African Americans are playing in the corporate world, as mechanical engineers, architects, doctors--right across the gamut...
...generation could just be a convenient fiction, propagated by academics looking for dissertation topics, publicists looking for publicity and (surely not) book critics looking for a headline. On some level it has always been an absurdity. Look at the heroes of the iconic books of those previous eras: Jake Barnes, Holden Caulfield, Dean Moriarty--bad seeds and square pegs, all of them. The paradox of every Voice novel is that it brings a generation of readers together around the idea that they alone are the single badass misfit truth teller in a world full of phonies...
...players and coaches alike accredited Harvard’s surprise NCAA bid to its superb record against the nation’s best squads. “The selection committee must have looked at wins against possible tournament teams and highly ranked teams,” co-captain midfielder Jake Samuelson said. “Other teams had good records but didn’t have the wins. It’s more a factor of who you beat than who you lost to.” —MADELEINE I. SHAPIRO