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...Cornum opted to keep quiet, but when she yelped in pain from her injuries, the soldier stopped. The incident made her an instant celebrity in the U.S. - living proof that even under the worst circumstances, American women were fit for combat. But Cornum, 50, says she put that "in pile B" of what she endured, compared to the hellish pain of her wounds and being almost bombed by U.S. jets strafing nearby targets. Being 36 at the time, with a toughened hide, helped. "I'd dealt with a number of people who'd died in helicopter wrecks before," she says...
...Kapur insists that accusations of selling out are wide of the mark. Just because he understands how money works, he says, doesn't mean his concern is merely making a pile of it for himself. In fact, he adds, in the past few years his problem was too much cash: "With the amount we had on The Four Feathers, it's very difficult to retain creative control. There were meetings, meetings, meetings, when what I needed was to pay more attention to the script." It's not a mistake Kapur intends to repeat: his Mandela movie is already...
...girls started to pile into their seats, as mentors in orange shirts ran from corner to corner, attempting to control their excited charges...
...McCulley also notes); they are doing it because they believe it is in their interest to do so. They are practicing mercantilists, employing an economic philosophy popular in Europe hundreds of years ago, which roughly equates a nation's strength and economic security with how big its pile of currency reserves happens to be. Call it the Scrooge McDuck approach to national well-being...
ALOFT XBy Chang-Rae Lee It's like an optical illusion. Look at Jerry Battle one way, and he's got it made: retired, pile of money, kids grown, nice house. Tilt the picture just slightly, and it tells another story: his daughter is sick, he's haunted by memories of his dead wife, and his son is screwing up the landscaping business Jerry spent his life building. Of course, Jerry likes the picture the first way, but that second picture keeps looming. The quintessential novel of suburban blight, Aloft is as perfect and manicured as a Long Island...