Word: orphans
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Raising the new force is proving as tricky as arming it. More than 500 men signed up for the first battalion. Most were flown to Kabul from provincial recruitment centers; others arrived on horseback or on foot. One 14-year-old boy, an orphan, tried to sign up; the Americans turned him away. But by graduation, more than one-third of the trainees had dropped out. Many had arrived with the idea that they would be training in the U.S. or Turkey, then quit when they realized that they were destined only for the battle-scarred Afghan Military Academy outside...
...stock is trading at $1 and it was trading at $50, it is telling you that unless a rabbit is pulled out of a hat, it is going bankrupt," says Jason Selch, analyst with Chicago-based Wanger Asset Management, which manages the Liberty Acorn Funds. Selch looks for orphans, stocks that have fallen so far out of favor that even brokers aren't paying attention to them. One orphan he owns is Navigant Consulting, which traded as high as $50 in 1999 and is now less than $6, a casualty of several class actions. Selch thinks the firm's current...
...angst-ridden Spidey than hours in the gym. Before Spider-Man made him internationally famous, Maguire was known as one of Hollywood's go-to actors for troubled-youth parts: a neglected loner in The Ice Storm (1997), a teen yearning for escape in Pleasantville (1998), an orphan searching for a home in The Cider House Rules (1999), a self-destructive college student in Wonder Boys (2000). His performances were enigmatic, unpredictable and haunting--hardly swaggering leading-man turns wherein he saved the day and got the girl...
...been 12 years since her last novel, but in The Shelters of Stone (Crown; 753 pages) little has changed. Auel's heroine, the plucky orphan Ayla, is still making her way in the spear-throwing, wolf-taming, sexually liberated Cro-Magnon era. Shelters is Auel's Paleolithic answer to Meet the Parents: Ayla's studly paramour Jondalar takes her home to his tribe, which lives on the site of the famous Lascaux cave paintings. Tension ensues--they had bitchy ex-girlfriends back then too--along with the occasional steamy sex scene and a short course in such lost arts...
...taken to calling the 2011 expiration the “largest tax increase” in American history. The whole scheme brings to mind the traditional example of chutzpah—the murderer who kills his parents and then asks for the court’s mercy as an orphan...