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...High Res In his review of the movie 300 [March 19] Lev Grossman wrote, "The Spartans were sick, scary fighters, brutally trained from childhood, the ancient equivalent of special forces." He should have stuck to the subject of his review without making backhanded insults about members of the armed forces. Grossman also called director Zack Snyder a "dork" for having read a comic book about the Battle of Thermopylae. Professional warriors in our armed forces read Thucydides, Clausewitz, Sun Tzu and Herodotus. I challenge Grossman to call those members of our military dorks. Walt Stachowicz, Inverness, Florida...
...unofficial rental agreement with one family of indigenous Fijians. The woman had electricity connected to her shack, but then the chief plugged the freezer of his fish shop into her supply. "She was looking paler and paler when I saw her," he says. "I thought she was getting sick, but it was that she could not pay these electricity bills. I moved her out. But when I went back to dismantle her house the landowners were standing there with cane knives. They said the structure did not belong to them, but I had to come across their land...
...High Res In his review of the movie 300 [March 12] Lev Grossman wrote, "The Spartans were sick, scary fighters, brutally trained from childhood, the ancient equivalent of special forces." He should have stuck to the subject of his review without making backhanded insults about members of the armed forces. Grossman also called director Zack Snyder a "dork" for having read a comic book about the Battle of Thermopylae. Professional warriors in our armed forces read Thucydides, Clausewitz, Sun Tzu and Herodotus. I challenge Grossman to call those members of our military dorks. Walt Stachowicz, INVERNESS, FLORIDA...
...know, it's totally silly and shallow, but that's precisely why Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app. And if you don't like it, well, in the words of one Twit from San Francisco, "I'm so sick to death of Twitter-haters. If you don't like it, why waste your time writing, reading, or talking about it? Sheesh...
...Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would subpoena Karl Rove, Harriet Miers, and other White House officials involved in firings, and that he would like them to testify in public before the panel. Visibly exasperated, Leahy said, "I want testimony under oath. I am sick and tired of getting half-truths on this," adding, "I do not believe in this 'We'll have a private briefing for you where we'll tell you everything,' and they don't." But it remains unclear whether, or under what condictions, the White House will permit its officials...