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...You’ve worked on movies with Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Robert Downey Jr., and Justin Timberlake. Is this a coincidence or does your work conveniently land you next to some of the hottest actors in Hollywood? LEG: (Laughs) I don’t decide whether to take on movies based on the hotness of the lead actor...but it certainly doesn’t hurt. FM: Also, we have to ask: Orlando Bloom or Johnny Depp? LEG: Ummm, man. Johnny’s so sexy. Let’s just say that...
Each year on Nov. 11, the U.S. celebrates Veterans Day in honor of those who have fought - and those who have died - for the country. Wreath-laying ceremonies take place at cemeteries across the land, including at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Though the commemoration officially began in Arlington as Armistice Day, with the burial of an anonymous World War I soldier at the Tomb of the Unknowns in 1921, the occasion didn't become a federal holiday in the U.S. until 1938. (In 1954 its name was changed to Veterans Day.) Accounts differ on when the tradition began...
...have fled the area of fighting in South Waziristan, enabling the army to use extensive airpower against militants without fear of collateral damage. But there are only 28,000 ground troops in an area the size of Rhode Island, fighting a well-fortified enemy that has bunkers, ammunition depots, land mines and an extensive network of caves. To prevent TTP fighters from escaping over the border to Afghanistan, the army has reached out to what it perceives to be the lesser evil - militant groups that may have fought the government in the past but that detest the TTP more...
...refer to as “Big Citizenship.” Khazei noted that “for too many people, the American dream has become a dream deferred,” and said that community service is the mechanism by which America could recreate itself as a land of opportunity...
...hire thousands of Yemenis to construct its new natural-gas facility, despite the fact that most needed extensive training. The company says Yemenis comprised about 70% of the 11,000 or so people who built the project. Total even negotiated separately with each of the 22 tribes whose land the pipeline travels through in order to avoid angering locals...