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...blend in and take control. An Army captain who jumped into the region with a team of four others told TIME that his detachment suddenly found itself in charge of 300 Kurdish fighters from the north, known as peshmerga, who had been fighting Saddam for a dozen years. Joint strategy meetings were anything but regular Army. "A lot of communication goes on over pita bread, chai and rice," said the U.S. officer. "We ate what they...
...teams told TIME that often as little as 10 minutes elapsed between an initial call for help from the Kurdish-controlled areas of the north and the first bombs falling. "How do you make 50 special-forces teams look 10 feet tall?" asked General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the war's opening days. "You put Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force power with them. With the right communications and laser designators, you've got a pretty formidable force...
...first suggested to Ellison last year that the applications side of their businesses should merge. The discussions were cordial--hard to imagine after a week in which Conway compared Ellison to Genghis Khan--and the two companies exchanged fact-finding teams. The sticking point: who would run the joint business. "He said, 'I'm your man,'" says Ellison. "Conway didn't see a single antitrust problem then." (Conway does not dispute this account of the meeting but points out that discussions were over in a matter of hours.) After negotiations broke down, Ellison kept the idea of some kind...
...staid. "Jazz is more advanced," he wrote in 1931. "If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle." It's too bad he didn't live to see Hadid's performance in Cincinnati. You know what he would have said? "This joint is jumpin...
...drenched Elysium unsullied by the footprints of backpackers and sarong vendors. The standard ensemble of white sand, stately palms and sapphire sea is lovely, no doubt, but it gives the visitor little sense of place. For that, you need people, preferably local. Some travelers look at a funky beer joint on the beach as an eyesore; to me, it's a sign of life?not always intelligent life, but holidays aren't meant for heavy thinking...