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When Helvenston was killed, Blackwater was expanding its business in Iraq from being just bodyguards. The company wanted to make a bid to take over security for convoys delivering kitchen supplies to U.S. military bases in Iraq. The families claim that Helvenston and the others were on one of the first such missions, put together hastily and on the cheap to impress their prospective client--a few contractors up the chain--the U.S. Army. Time has obtained the first eyewitness testimony given under oath that describes the events leading up to that convoy. In a 194-page sworn deposition filed...
...when they arrived in Iraq, there were no heavy weapons or hard cars. Just as important, their project manager, a heavyset American they called Shrek, prevented them from doing the promised preparations, Berman says. Blackwater's team was in a hurry to take over the contract to escort kitchen supplies to a U.S. military base near Fallujah from a British security company. The British company offered to have the Blackwater guys ride along with them to get to know the general routes and threats, but Shrek said his team was "way too busy," according to Berman. Blackwater also didn...
...back to the kitchen. Go in there and make me some bacon and eggs, would you?" CEDRIC MAXWELL, Boston Celtics radio commentator, while criticizing a female referee during a game; he later apologized...
RYAN PRESSLER MIGHT BE described as a techno-Hessian. Don't misunderstand. He likes contributing to what he considers "the technology that is revolutionizing how people access entertainment and media." And the organic goodies, such as his daily dose of Kagome juice, delivered by MobiTV's kitchen (stocked by the same people who do Google's food service), clicks with his interest in nature and biology. But Pressler is like a lot of thirtysomething tech vets who experienced the dotcom bust: reliable, flexible--and portable...
...success. Max and his best friend are struck by the affliction that makes Viagra viable, while Elena’s son beds a woman twice his age—Max’s ex-wife. But outside the bedroom, hardly anything happens. Smiley islands her reader in the kitchen or the TV room, where there is nothing but talk and Iraq. But what’s the purpose of 449 pages of opinion on entering a war four years after the fact? If this is a protest novel, it comes a bit late. Say it ain?...