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...took a YouTube video to scald the conscience of officials at Fort Bragg, where soldiers returned from 15 months in Afghanistan to a barracks festooned with filth, paint peeling in pages off the walls. "Soldiers should never have to live in such squalor," said Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who saw the video. "Things happen too slowly." But even if the system worked perfectly, it would still take billions of dollars to meet the need...
...seen as contemporary." The U.S. president of KFC resigned in September. To make matters worse, Pamela Anderson, the ex-Baywatch TV actress, recently joined a boycott of KFC led by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The animal-rights group says KFC's suppliers drug and scald the chickens, and sear off their beaks with hot blades before slaughtering them in an inhumane manner. "If people knew how KFC treats chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick," Anderson wrote in an Oct. 15 letter to operators of Canadian KFC outlets. (KFC says it deals only with suppliers that maintain...
...only for the future. The future is important, yes, but if you do nothing about today, there may not be a point to tomorrow. So go ahead, shatter some lonely guy or girl's misconceptions about the Harvard dating scene. You never know whom you'll meet. Or scald...
...when Brooks was hot, the spillage could scald people. "He would spew whole runs of dialogue and scenes," recalls David Lloyd, the brilliant comic dramatist who provided many of the best Mary Tyler Moore scripts, "and expect somebody to have taken it down. And if people lost the key words, he'd glower murderously at them. More than one secretary was reduced to tears." Brooks could find script ideas anywhere, as Lloyd recalls from the days of the MTM spin-off Lou Grant: "We were at a story conference, and I didn't have an idea in the world...
They talk of a lean, fierce beauty with the presence and intensity to scald the screen, a very young actress with the looks and cold nerve to strip off her clothes at the end of Witold Gombrowicz's stage drama, The Operetta, as her role required, and finish the play stark naked. She was a star in Warsaw's film and television Industry, and on the stage of the city's famed Drama Theater, since her second year at the Academy of Theatrical Arts. A year and a half after she left Warsaw, almost certainly...