Word: patrollers
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...world's best ski racer, but whatever the result, he laughs it off and maybe has a beer afterward. Or two. In a world where winners get endorsements and losers work for the ski patrol, Miller actually believes in that old Olympic canard that it's playing the game that counts. "Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say it is not all about winning," he told TIME during pre-Olympic training at Colorado's Copper Mountain. The important thing to him is to try to ski well - to improve, to reach...
...Pulpit Patrol Re Andrew Sullivan's essay "The Vatican's New Stereotype": I am sorry about Pope Benedict XVI's rules excluding gay men from the priesthood [Dec. 12]. But they are not the first Catholics to be identified and told that "regardless of how they behave or what they do, they are beneath serving God" as priests. That distinction belongs to women. Lynn Mostafa Salinas, California...
...Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, he plays Pete Perkins, a ranch foreman whose Mexican friend Melquiades is killed by a hotheaded border-patrol guard (Barry Pepper). As an act of respect, Pete vows to return Mel's body home; as a moral lesson, he resolves to take the killer with him. At riflepoint...
...film grew from Jones' friendship with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams). For the Texan and the Mexican, a film about the border patrol struck sparks. "I want to make movies about my country from my point of view," Jones says, "and Arriaga feels that way about his country. You can't spend a lot of time in the Rio Grande Valley without realizing that those countries are the same." The two men's collaboration worked out handsomely: they won the actor and screenplay prizes at Cannes...
...neocons' vision of a reliable U.S. client state in the Middle East. The second part of this equation awaits history's verdict; the first part didn't work out at all. Iraq has turned out to be an old-fashioned war, one carried out by foot soldiers on dangerous patrol. The toys are not nifty long-range missiles but G.I. Joes: human beings at fatal risk...