Word: mikes
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...that surprised [with the result],” Harvard coach Mike O’Connor said. “We look at an event like this one as a learning process...
...call its deserts and redoubts home. Deployed at the front line of Washington's war on terrorism, the U.S. commanders believe they have the enemy on the run even if bin Laden remains at large. "I don't think we're facing 'good' al-Qaeda," says Lieut. Colonel Mike Howard, who commands the 10th Mountain Division's two bases at Orgun-e and Shkin, referring to the battle-tested brigades that faced off against the U.S. forces when they first arrived. "I wouldn't have said that two years ago." Members of the 10th Mountain Division who have returned...
...other people work. In the real world, workers may be worried about outsourcing, downsizing and on-the-job surveillance, but on TV, cutthroat, anxious work under surveillance is becoming big entertainment--perhaps in the same way that horror movies and roller coasters make anxiety fun. For Fox reality chief Mike Darnell (who's making Casino, about working in, you guessed it, a casino, with Apprentice producer Mark Burnett), the series also focus on timeless universals. "In our society," he says, "you get married, have babies and go to work. Those are the important moments...
...alone. First, who's going to laugh at the jokes? But it's also just not natural; comedy is inherently competitive and interactive. And although the idea of comedy duos seems antiquated--from the black-and-whiteness of Laurel and Hardy to the '60s snobbery of Elaine May and Mike Nichols--Ben Stiller, 38, and Owen Wilson, 35, have resuscitated the concept, playing off each other in a series of six simultaneously smart and stupid films, including The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander and Meet the Parents. Stiller, whose parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara were a comedy team...
...which now has a multimillion-dollar budget. Last week, amid a barrage of criticism, he resigned as chairman but will stay on Smith & Wesson's board. Anti-gun lobbyists hope this embarrassment will help them defeat a bill in Congress that would shield gunmakers from crime-victim lawsuits. Says Mike Barnes, head of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: "Only in the N.R.A.'s America can a company chaired by a onetime violent hoodlum be on the verge of being given a license to behave negligently." --By Julie Rawe