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...brush. As it happened, no one was hurt in the raid. Indeed, Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Adolfo Blandón later denied to TIME that there had been any recent air attack on La Joya. Such charges, he said, were a "trick" by the rebels to "ruin the prestige of the armed forces...
...between the ages of 19 and 29. I never married again. Rolfe [Tessem, a former network-news producer and director] and I are celebrating 19 years together in September, but we have never married. I think I've discovered the secret. I'm not very good at marriage. Why ruin a good thing? We own a production company together. We live together. We love each other. Our lives are joined in many, many ways. I don't know how we could be more married...
Started in 1948, World has teetered on the edge of financial ruin several times. It made its name flying refugees during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. A World aircraft was the last commercial airplane to leave Da Nang in 1975--overloaded with so many Vietnamese that eight turned up in the wheel wells. After an unsuccessful attempt at becoming a regularly scheduled carrier in the 1980s, World focused on military flying in the 1990s...
...posturing are habits honed by a year of leading troops through hellfire in Baghdad. "People do what I say, when I say, how I say, and no questions asked," says Bunn in his staff-sergeant mode, stubbing out the cigarette. The city staff-all two of them-ruin the effect, however, by peering out a city-hall window and smiling indulgently at the boss. It is his first day back at work. They're just glad to have him back in one piece...
...London, come with his signature caveats: trust no one, and there are no happy endings. "A good relationship equals a sh__ty story," LaBute says. "Drama's fundamental building block is conflict. You have to pitch people at one another. So my job is to look for ways to ruin a perfectly good day for people." This cheerful observation issues from a bear of a man with tortoiseshell glasses and a mass of curly hair. His voice is soft, but LaBute has been honing his hard edge since the early '80s, when he enrolled in a theater studies course...