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...description, "floundering," when he was drafted into the profession by his older brother Owen, who needed cheap labor for a movie he was working on with his friend Wes Anderson. "Acting came at the right time," says Luke. "It gave me something to focus on." The movie, Bottle Rocket, was little seen by audiences but admired enough by the industry that the trio reteamed for the successively higher-budget and higher-profile films Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums...
...reported missing overnight Thursday in Baghdad, and later in the day Centcom announced that a Special Operations soldier had been killed and eight wounded by hostile fire during an operation southwest of Baghdad. Two Iraqis employed to help restore Baghdad's electricity supply were among those killed in a rocket attack on a U.S. convoy Thursday, while saboteurs blew up two important oil pipelines earlier in the week, apparently recognizing their ability to disrupt power supplies by targeting some of the country's 4,000 miles of oil and gas pipelines...
...mercury hits 110 degrees most days in Baghdad now, but for occupying U.S. forces the political-military climate may be even hotter. Thursday's mortar and rocket attacks that killed one American and a number of Iraqis were a continuation of a daily drumbeat of hit-and-run attacks. Although U.S. officials have reported killing more than 100 fighters and arresting hundreds of suspects in raids this week on a suspected training camp and during searches of villages in Iraq's Baath party heartland, America has suffered an average of a soldier killed in combat every other day since President...
Executive compensation and perks have skyrocketed, with no end in sight. Eventually the "rocket scientists" who run corporations will wake up to their economic interdependence. When Company A eliminates raises and paychecks, there will be fewer sales and profits at Company B since people will have less money to buy goods. Well, duh! I didn't major in economics, but even I can figure that out. Why can't the CEOs? Maybe because they're too busy patting themselves on the back, lying to the shareholders and taking junkets to Bermuda while the rest of us suffer. Well, their...
...York City crime. Baghdad's new sheriff acknowledges that his current job is an even tougher undertaking. "Someone driving down the street, pulling out a gun and doing a drive-by shooting is one thing," he notes. "Here, somebody rolls down their back window, pulls out an RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] and blows up the entire precinct. It's a slightly different ball game...