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...ACTOR Jim Carrey...
...rear-echelon camp of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Kuwait was rocked by a grenade attack early Sunday morning, local time. TIME's Jim Lacey was 20 yards away from the tent when the attack occurred; he reports 10 people were injured, six of them critically after two grenades were thrown into a tent. Lacey says the grenades targeted the tent of one of the commanders of the 101st...
Playground bullies make great blockmates, at least if you ask “Jim,” the jock who guaranteed his place in a blocking group by slamming a “spindly boy scout lawyer-to-be” up against a wall. This blocking melodrama comes from an anonymous source in Fifteen Minutes’ (FM) “Blocking Confessions!” Astute enough to align with the Neanderthal in this petty scuffle, the unnamed confessor demonstrates the social savvy of a fifth-grader still bowing down to the class bully—and actually...
Franks is clearly shrewd about avoiding battles he cannot win. Too shrewd, some say. When the Bush Administration wanted Jim Wilkinson, a former Bush campaign aide, to be Franks' spokesman--a job that has traditionally gone to a uniformed officer--the general went along, though many in the military complained that the move politicized a position that should remain apolitical. But a senior Pentagon official said Franks had no choice: "It is not a given that George Bush will win re-election next year, but it is a given that he will lose if this war goes badly...
...baby-faced recruit helped Gunnery Sergeant John Bass install power and a light. "Good job," Bass told his young charge. "You're a man waiting to happen." In the coming days, boys on both sides of the border are likely to become men in an instant. --With reporting by Jim Lacey and Alex Perry/south of the Iraqi border