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What I found when I finally reached the seawall at the foot of the bluffs is difficult to describe. Men were trying to dig or scrape trenches or foxholes for protection against incoming fire. Others were carrying or helping the wounded to areas of shelter. We had to crouch or crawl on all fours when moving about. Most of us were in no condition to carry on. All were trying to stay alive for the moment. Behind us, other landing craft were attempting to unload their equipment and personnel in the incoming tide and were coming under enemy fire...
Tabloid Tumble Piers Morgan, the flamboyant editor of the U.K.'s Daily Mirror, has survived many a scrape during his tabloid career, but the photographs he published two weeks ago purporting to show British soldiers brutally mistreating an Iraqi prisoner in the back of a truck proved Morgan's undoing. Last week the Mirror's publisher conceded the pictures were fake (the paper claims to have been the victim of a hoax), apologized unreservedly to readers and the military, and fired the editor. Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram told Parliament the pictures were "categorically not taken in Iraq"; the military...
...Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin's reform policies, which some see as downright counterproductive. "We'd all rather be working than scrambling to find a job," comments Jean-Michel Florand, one of the victorious Marseilles plaintiffs. "But it's virtually impossible if our entire day is spent trying to scrape enough together to simply survive." It often seems the government itself is in survival mode when it comes to controlling spending. Though Raffarin and his conservative partners swept into office on a reformist platform in 2002, they've become caught in the pincers of economic stagnation and growing public dissatisfaction...
...potential jurors shuttled across lower Manhattan's Centre Street for jury selection. Along the way, one man asked a court officer if it was for the Kozlowski case. As a writer-reporter for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, I wondered whether Atlanta Falcons tight end Brian Kozlowski had got into a legal scrape. Of course, the defendants were actually Dennis Kozlowski, the CEO of Tyco International, and ex-CFO Mark Swartz. Through a series of ever larger acquisitions throughout the '90s, the two built Tyco into a $36 billion conglomerate and made themselves exceedingly wealthy in the process...
...with heavy boots and few rules - hung on a few decades longer. It even enjoyed a brief vogue in the U.S. In 1883, New York's Sunday Mercury ran a wince-making account of one bout in which a certain McTevish "gave Grabby what is known as the sole scrape. Beginning at the instep and ending just below the knee, Grabby's left shin was scraped almost clear of skin." As Daeschner explains, it wasn't only blood sport that scuppered the Olimpicks and other festivals like it. It was also the attendant vice and brawls between drunken fans from...