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Shana Johnson joined the army because she wanted to be a cook. She left the University of Texas at El Paso and enlisted four years ago so she could get professional training. Her father remembers the meals his daughter likes to make at home--jerk chicken and curry rice, specialties that reflect the family's West Indian heritage. Sometimes these days, however, he forgets to eat. He wonders what his daughter was doing in the line of fire. The 507th wasn't trained for battle, though Shana knew how to shoot an M-16 rifle in defense. Unlike pilots...
...started the second set. Kenyon was lobbing some weak second serves, so I tried to pass Larry down the line, but my accuracy of course was not great. It ended up looking like I was aiming for him and was a huge jerk...
...movie is based on a book by Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice, hardly a Giuliani ally, which fed suspicion that it might be a hatchet job. Yes, it makes Giuliani look like a jerk, but that's both an insult and a compliment. You boo Rudy the jerk when he ends his marriage via a press conference, but you cheer Rudy the jerk when he pushes around insider traders and Mob bosses. Giuliani's philosophy was that it takes a tough guy to run a tough city. If that doesn't always come across prettily on screen, that...
Others have also taken it upon themselves to repeat the obvious about Israel. In a measured and clear-headed response to the knee-jerk detractors of Israel, a group of Harvard students has put together a petition that repeats what everyone should agree upon...
...mere 100 people are charged each day). Even so, one person a day simply refuses to pay up. When opponents to London's charging start talking, it is easy to see why the policy has not caught on elsewhere. "I'm not paying a tax just because some [jerk] hates cars. I'm taking my business elsewhere. This ain't the city I was born in," writes a visitor to the popular Sod-U-Ken website. Some portion of the complaints are legitimate. After decades of underfunding and neglect, Greater London's public transit system is often late and sometimes...