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...Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq By George Packer 467 pages
...foot of snow two weeks ago left Green Bay, Wisconsin, with a white Christmas and the Packers with a problem: Lambeau Field had to be cleared to prepare it for the National Football Conference divisional playoff game on Jan. 4. So Ted Eisenreich, the Packers' buildings supervisor, did what he usually does in similar situations. He put out the word in the mill town of 96,466 that he needed 200 shovelers to dig out the field at $6 an hour. Dozens had to be turned away, while still others offered to work for free. "I don't want...
...Inspired by Gigot's confession, I too must reveal that the Wulf family has an investment in the Packers, though ours is of a more emotional nature. Our son John has been a Packer fan most of his life, which is now seven years long, despite having never set foot in Wisconsin. Let's see, he has a No. 4 Brett Favre Packer jersey, a No. 92 Reggie White Packer jersey, a Packer sweatshirt, a very cool Packer T shirt, two Packer baseball caps, one Packer knit cap, a Packer checker set, a Packer piggy bank, a miniature Packer helmet...
...America loves a good rags-to-riches story, and for the Packers, theirs began anew in 1992. From out of nowhere, or rather the New York Jets, came a new general manager, Ron Wolf. He hired Holmgren, the crackerjack offensive coordinator for the 49ers who can go both ways - tough and tender. That same year Wolf traded a first-round draft choice to the Atlanta Falcons for backup quarterback Brett Favre, who soon replaced incumbent Dan Majkowski. Favre has since replaced Bart Starr in the hearts of many Packer fans as he has driven the team first to respectability, then...
Helping Favre along has been White, who was signed as a free agent in '93. Besides being the best defensive end in N.F.L. history, White is an ordained minister who keeps every Packer on the same page of the hymnal. Even more impressive, perhaps, is what White has done to Green Bay. He has enlisted the townspeople in his crusade to rebuild burned-out black churches, a mission begun when his own church burned down in Knoxville, Tennessee, the week before last year's loss in the N.F.C. Championship Game to the Cowboys...