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...called the suspects "nothing more than drug traffickers." Prosecutors say Cole sold marijuana to a motorist charged with gross vehicular manslaughter in connection with a December accident near Ventura, Calif. His truck hit a parked car on a highway shoulder, killing the driver and seriously injuring a California Highway Patrol officer. Police said the driver was under the influence of marijuana that he said he had purchased at a dispensary in Compton, where one of Grant's operations is located...
...They're nuts to think that, but what are you going to do? For now, we'll buy our energy elsewhere. After all, the Americans still patrol the Persian Gulf, guaranteeing that all the oil and gas we buy from there (including Iran's!) will get to China without incident...
...most recent crime the colonel is dealing with was particularly provocative. On May 14, a woman passed several Sons of Iraq checkpoints as she made her way to the front gate of an Iraqi Army patrol base. She asked to see the company's commander, Captain Wassim Abdul Hadi Saaud al-Sertani. She was a suicide bomber and when the commander arrived, she detonated her explosive vest and killed him and herself...
...Capa's work is grittier and more spontaneous, his D-Day shots unmatchable. But to some minds Khaldei - although unschooled and dismissive of any claim to being an "artist" - may have had the aesthetic edge, with his intuitive sense of theatrical composition. It turns the silhouette of a patrol setting off in the cold midnight sun of the Barents Sea into a grim ballet of war. The show's co-curator, Ernst Volland, says the photographer's aesthetic instincts may have been formed by Russian avant-garde revolutionary art of the 1920s - the paintings of Rodchenko and films of Vertov...
...This particular Sunday is to be a day of rest. The men have just returned from a 13-hour patrol that began at 1 a.m. with a difficult trudge through waterlogged fields, and ended under the blazing sun, searching a compound for a weapons cache. Besides, says Wardrobe, "We didn't get a Saturday night out, so we have to make up for it somehow...