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...American soldiers patrolling Baghdad's dangerous neighborhoods are under no illusions; many treat Iraqi soldiers and policemen with suspicion sometimes bordering on hostility. Higher up the chain of command, there are still optimists, but even they are growing more cautious. Lieut. General Martin Dempsey, the American general until recently responsible for training Iraqi forces, gave a guarded assessment of their quality not long ago, telling of absenteeism and desertion from the ranks, and the scarcity of officers. Most of the Iraqi battalions in the surge are woefully undermanned, he said. Nonetheless, Dempsey maintained that the Iraqis would be "capable...
...personas of most of today's funny guys could be said to flow from Steve Martin. As a stand-up comic in the '70s, he played the idiot with an utterly unwarranted belief in his coolness, while in his first hit movie, The Jerk, he played ... a jerk. The first type has bloomed in the strutting film personalities of Ferrell, Vaughn, Jack Black, Owen Wilson and many others; the second in Sandler, who teams this summer with another lout, TV's Kevin James, in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. Lower on this fast-food chain are Rob Schneider...
McNeil will fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Dean Joseph B. Martin, whose decade leading one of Harvard's largest schools comes to a close at the end of this month...
...must use the Jr. when discussing the 31-year chairman of NASCAR, who died June 4 at 74; it's necessary in a way that it isn't with, say, Martin Luther King, Sammy Davis or Dinosaur. This is because there was a Bill France Sr.--was there ever. Big Bill grew up poor in Washington and had less than $100 to his name when he moved his family south during the Depression, seeking work. He found it in a gas station in Daytona, Fla., a town that loved gas. Soon France was helping organize stock-car races...
...Joseph B. Martin is stepping down this summer after 10 years as dean of Harvard Medical School...