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...Jurgersen's first evacuation. Last June, he survived a bullet that pierced his tongue and lodged in the back of throat. He spent more than three weeks recovering at Landstuhl. Jurgersen, tall and powerfully built, insisted on returning to Iraq to complete the 1st Infantry Division's yearlong mission, which ended last month. "My husband's never not finished anything in his life," his wife, Karin, wrote in an e-mail a few days after his leg was amputated, adding that when he heard Time had seen him arrive at Landstuhl, "he asked that you don't make...
...from Scotland four years ago and had been with the Lindberghs more than a year. Scotland Yard double-checked their records abroad. The New Jersey Police exonerated them publicly. Nurse Gow might still be implicated, for Major Charles Schoeffel went to England a month after the abduction on a mission whose nature was not explained. And it was Nurse Gow who brought Henrik Finn ("Red") Johnsen into the case...
...you’re going to have a lot of trouble finding good bands if love is a taboo lyrical topic—this is a pretty enduring one, and I don’t think it’s unfair for a band like Oasis whose self-admitted mission is to reinvent a genre for the modern era (and I mean era) to occasionally use a subject which was absolutely fundamental to that original genre’s ethos, and which determined a lot of the aural vocabulary still in play today...
...venue for that which has no other venue,” says the Zeitgeist’s mission statement, and while that isn’t always true, it’s accurate enough of the time to make its continued existence a crucial one. For just over ten years, the one-room art gallery and performance space has acted as a laboratory for artists in nearly every medium...
...vibe inside the store matches its mission, and on a normal day, despite the fact that the cash register towers over the racks from atop a raised platform, the employees treat their customers like friends. It’s a local music scene with none of the usual pretension of the “underground”—a collective of fans and musicians who love hip hop more than just about anything else...