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...plastic bag containing a pair of his wife's underwear. She gave it to him before his first deployment to Iraq, when they were still dating. "She said that she would stick by me," he says. But on a patrol outside Fallujah, the bag fell out of his pocket and blew away. "I thought it was long gone," he says. A week later, while "out in the middle of nowhere," he noticed a plastic bag and picked it up. The underwear was inside. "I couldn't believe it. I guess it was a sign because, sure enough, when...
...analysis on the Soviets to suit hard-liners in the Reagan White House. More than 30 Democrats--10 of whom are still in the Senate--opposed his nomination to be CIA director in 1991. Gates went into his confirmation that year carrying a small, white oblong stone in his pocket, a memento of a hike he had taken in the Olympic mountains the summer before. He wanted a reminder of what he had to look forward to in case his nomination failed. He may want to dig that stone out of his closet. Given the current Administration's record...
Time Out magazine is the go-to publication for weekly event listings and reviews in cities around the world. The new Time Out Shortlist guidebooks have expanded on that concept to create pocket-size guides to hip happenings in Paris, New York City, Prague, Barcelona and Rome. Written by local journalists, the books offer up a plugged-in guide to the best clubs, pubs, hotels, shops and events of the moment. While not as fresh as a weekly magazine, the guides will be revised annually to stay up-to-date with the fashions and venues in each city they cover...
...most people in the corporate world, the Caribbean is the perfect spot for that next much needed vacation. Irish entrepreneur Denis O'Brien, however, eyed the island nations and saw just one thing: customers. In 2001, O'Brien had a bit of cash burning a hole in his pocket from the $2.46 billion sale of his first telecom venture, Esat Telecom Group PLC. By chance, he came upon a small notice from the government of Jamaica announcing that it was opening its local phone market--long monopolized by British telecom giant Cable & Wireless--to competition. At the time, Jamaicans...
...last time presumptive Pentagon boss Robert M. Gates faced Senate confirmation - for CIA director in 1991- he put a small good-luck charm in his pocket. It was a smooth, white oblong stone he'd picked up while hiking in Washington State's Olympic Range. Gates put it in his pocket to remind him during the tough confirmation hearings that there was life after Washington if his nomination went down to defeat...