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Hannibal had his elephants, Rommel had his panzers and Bill Heinecke has his pizzas. And the pizza war is every bit as brutal as those fought by bow or musket or machine gun. That's why Heinecke, 52, astride a Harley Davidson FX, is leading a squadron of 700 motorcycle delivery boys mounted on Hondas and Yamahas through Bangkok's Siam Square shopping district to publicize the launch of his new Pizza Company chain. But as he revs the engine on his hog, even this veteran of numerous thick-crust and double-cheese campaigns has his doubts: "What...
...background nobility. Murph (John C. Reilly) gets all sniffly and teary bonding with his son. Sully (William Fichtner) is the class malcontent; Bugsy (John Hawkes), the likable loser. Bobby's in love. They are the generic guy group, swapping taunts and testosterone before they band as brothers to fight Rommel or Cochise...
...tall, 135 pounds, chip on his shoulder. Played Dungeons and Dragons as a kid and scrawled "Sic Semper Tyrannis" ?- the stale John Wilkes Booth motto ?- in his high school yearbook. Insisted on going by "August" because Benjamin sounded too Jewish, and told the cops once to call him "Erwin Rommel." Distributed racist and anti-Semitic literature at home and at school, had a girlfriend who does not remember him fondly. Scary? Sure. But he could have been on "Seinfeld," too. As a malcontent, Smith was little more than a caricature ?- until he set out in his light blue Ford last...
...After Rommel's defeat in North Africa, after the debacle at Stalingrad and even when the landings in Normandy were imminent, Hitler and his entourage still had the mind to come up with the Final Solution. In his testament, drafted in a underground bunker just hours before his suicide in Berlin, Hitler returns again to this hatred of the Jewish people that had never left...
...would be sweet revenge not only for Apple but also for Ellison, who feels about Microsoft--and most particularly about its CEO Bill Gates--the way Patton felt about Rommel. Gates' stock holdings, worth around $32 billion, dwarf Ellison's estimated $7 billion. Ellison, however, insists the fight isn't personal. "I'm more interested in beating Microsoft than I am in beating Bill Gates," he says. "I obsess on the personal computer and the industry, and I would love to see the age of proprietary computers...