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Sunlight streams through the trees on the lawn outside the Malkin Athletic Center, and the Harvard men’s and women’s fencing teams are out in force, laughing as they pull poses and pretend to fight over their multitude of trophies for a photo shoot. With not only the Ivy League Championship but also the NCAA Championship under their belts, they have something to celebrate.And at the edge stands the man who made it all happen. Peter Brand, head coach of the Harvard fencing program since 1999, has overseen an almost miraculous turnaround in the sport?...
...Goya-like grotesqueries, can make Picasso's Guernica look like a picnic. But on arriving in Iraq in 2003, the artist felt a new medium was required to capture the surreality of what he was experiencing. Meeting Baghdad's gangsta rap?spouting U.S. Marines, Gittoes was inspired to shoot the musical documentary Soundtrack to War (2004), in which mainly black soldiers sing straight to camera over the sound of rifle fire. Some of the eye-opening footage was used by Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11, and Gittoes' f?ted film has found a home on America's VH1 cable channel...
...April, when the DCCC found out that Representative Richard Pombo, a Republican from Northern California, was attending a Houston fund raiser organized by energy lobbyists while gas prices continued to shoot up, the committee quickly alerted local reporters, leading to headlines like ENERGY LOBBYISTS FUEL POMBO in the San Francisco Chronicle. Many of these ideas come from Emanuel, who emerges from a predawn swim at his YMCA in Washington each morning and soon starts barking out orders to his aides...
...didn't have a script or anything," says Hess, "but he was confident we'd come up with something good." Hess, who co-wrote the film with his wife Jerusha and Mike White, had never worked with a celebrity before, and when it came time to shoot, "I kind of beat around the bush if I wanted to change something. But Jack was just like, 'Hess, dude, tell me what you want.'" Says White: "He's not a Jim Carrey. He's not looking to improvise, and he finds it annoying when people say, 'Then you'll come...
...have fanned out across Iraq to rerun all the old drills about rules of engagement for Marine Corps and Army units. Marine Corps rules of engagement require personnel on patrol to follow a four-step procedure to distinguish friend from foe. It's an easy mnemonic: Shout. Show. Shove. Shoot. Marines are trained to stop a suspicious Iraqi at a safe distance of about 400 meters with a shout or a gesture. If that does not work, they should make a show of force with a rifle. If that fails, they should fire a warning shot across the suspect...