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...MIGHTY WIND. Anyone who sits through A Mighty Wind, writer/director Christopher Guest’s latest entry in the mockumentary subgenre, will be tempted to make comparisons to Guest’s earlier work, This Is Spinal Tap. While Tap focuses on the disaster-prone tour of a brainless metal band, Wind centers around a disaster-prone tribute concert in memory of a late, legendary folk music producer. The premise is just the sort of odd episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that...
Mile 19.5: Heartbreak hill. Pleaseohlordohlordjustenditnow. Why can’t a big car driven by some crazy man jump the metal barriers and the curb and just knock me out? Just enough to take me out of the race, but not enough to do permanent damage. Please...
...Eason Jordan, CNN's chief news executive, someday came after the metal head of Saddam Hussein finally rolled to a stop in Firdos Square. From 1991 to 2003, he wrote in the New York Times, CNN (which, like TIME, is part of AOL Time Warner) sat on stories of Iraqi brutality out of concern for the safety of its employees and sources. It did not report that these people were tortured by the government or that the regime threatened to kill CNN employees. Saddam's son Uday even threatened, in front of Jordan, to kill King Hussein of Jordan...
...hitting the ground, running for cover. The round has slammed into an amphibious assault vehicle just five feet away from me, landing between the gunner's turret and the driver's hatch. Marines pull injured buddies away from the smoking wreck. Blood mixes with oil on the vehicle's metal ramp. They cover bodies--two of them--and carry four injured to a field ambulance. "Get his weapon; we're going to need it," one shouts as a machine gunner is stretchered away...
Tight-fisted corporate execs have been the biggest brake on growth for several years, but they appear to be relaxing their grip. Tony Raimondo, CEO of Behlen Manufacturing in Columbus, Neb., estimates that war jitters were costing his metal-fabricating firm $2 million a month in lost orders--about 20% of his anticipated business. Raimondo expects spending to pick up now, as it did after Gulf I. Orders last week were twice what they were a year ago. Says Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Wells Fargo: "When I visit our customers throughout California, they all tell me they need...