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...Business of War Re "The Master Builder" [June 7]: it is astonishing how closely intertwined Halliburton, the biggest contractor in Iraq, and the Pentagon are. Wherever the military goes, Halliburton seems to be perched on its shoulder to scavenge profits from the rubble of war. And as if Halliburton's mission weren't unsavory enough, ex-employees intimate that the company has been gorging itself on taxpayer dollars via inefficient no-bid contracts. The Pentagon needs to dissociate itself from this bloated vulture ASAP. Ulysses Lateiner Somerville...
...sitting on benches,” Walsh said. “You know, you have fans sitting right behind the bench at a basketball game and no one says anything. But you put 12 baseball guys out there and you’ve got parents tapping kids on the shoulder asking, ‘You want anything? I’m going to the store...
...played football for eight years," Reagan protested. "Gipp weighed five pounds less than I weigh right now." The producer was still dubious. The problem, Reagan saw, was that he was wearing a business suit, and the producer envisioned a behemoth in helmet and shoulder pads. Reagan raced home, gathered up some pictures of himself in uniform, raced back to the studio and won the part. It made him famous, and years after he performed Gipp's death scene, he would still get "a lump in my throat ... just thinking about...
Later, Cardinal Cooke visited Ronnie in the White House and said, "God was certainly sitting on your shoulder that day." Ronnie replied, "Yes, I know, and I made up my mind that all the days I have left belong...
...hand, you can tell he is a member of academia. Beyond one shoulder, a multi-colored model of the human brain sits on a windowsill; beyond the other and lofted above his desk lies three bookshelves containing his own written works, “including all the foreign translations and British editions, hardback and paperback,” he says...