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...While I was waiting a few weeks for my interview with Art to be published in TIME, he called up to say that his editors found his working title too gloomy. The new title was, Too Soon to Say Goodbye. He got a kick out of their squeamishness when talking about death. He had, after all, faced death, his beloved wife's, and his own. At his age (80) and with his success, marketing the next of his thirtysomething books wasn't really one of his priorities...
...government responded by introducing subsidies in 2005 and then drafting a new set of tax credits to kick in this year. With relief in sight, the movie money started rolling back in. "What's surprising is the speed at which the industry's bounced back," says John Woodward, the Film Council's CEO. "But if you can build confidence and persuade the financing community that, going forward, things are going to be stable, you're in a good position." Hollywood already adores Brits: Helen Mirren and Sacha Baron Cohen picked up top awards at Monday's Golden Globes, while...
...being contemplated would increase the number of troops in the capital by 20,000, to about 35,000. Second, the troops we do have aren't trained to the task: they're tired and overextended, and it will take time to retrain them to knock on doors rather than kick them down. Third, this is no longer an insurgency; it's a civil war. Counterinsurgency tactics are designed to help a credible indigenous government fight a guerrilla opponent. The idea that Nouri al-Maliki's government is responsible is laughable: it's little more than a fig leaf...
...being contemplated would increase the number of troops in the capital by 20,000, to about 35,000. Second, the troops we do have aren't trained to the task: they're tired and overextended, and it will take time to retrain them to knock on doors rather than kick them down. Third, this is no longer an insurgency; it's a civil war. Counterinsurgency tactics are designed to help a credible indigenous government fight a guerrilla opponent. The idea that Nouri al-Maliki's government is responsible is laughable: it's little more than a fig leaf...
...camp will give head coach Greg Ryan a chance to evaluate the 28 players he has invited to Carson before whittling his roster down to 20 players. Those 20 will then travel to Gungzhou, China, to play in the Four Nations Tournament. The United States, ranked second internationally, will kick off tournament play on January 26 against top-ranked Germany. It will also play 12th-ranked England and ninth-ranked host China over the next four days. With 153 “caps,” Markgraf reports to camp as the most experienced member of this year?...