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...Marines reach the edge of town, and more Iraqis surrender. An old man strips off his jacket and waddles toward a Marine position in a dirty white singlet. "There are militia on every corner in the city," he says, unfolding a now familiar story in the Shi'ite south. "They tell us to fight or they will kill our children. They say if we are captured, the U.S. will tie us up and leave us in the desert, and when Saddam returns, he will kill...
...Smith may not be as big as Ali but, sitting in his trailer, wearing a white singlet and olive trousers tied loosely at his waist, the usually slim and lanky actor looks imposing. His shoulders are huge and his biceps flex whenever he moves his arms. "I'm sharp," he says, boxing the air in front of him. Smith began training for the role in February 2000 when he first met Darrell Foster, a former middleweight boxer and longtime trainer of former champion Sugar Ray Leonard. "He was out of shape," says Foster. Foster put Smith through a professional training...
...many images race through my mind as I recall the New York City Marathon. Crossing the bridge into Brooklyn, a firefighter ran with us, dressed in his heavy boots, flame-retardant coat and pants and signature black helmet. One runner beside me wore a singlet with “For My Buddies” written across the shoulders, and seven names listed down the back. Another woman I passed had pinned a picture of her late brother to the back of her T-shirt. Some ran with American flag capes fluttering behind them, and scores of others had adorned their...
...control behind him, Miller panicked. "I've just hit a woman, I hit a woman," he yelled to his sleeping co-driver as they shuddered to a stop. But he hadn't hurt Lees; he had saved her. Bleeding from the cuts lacing her body?her shorts and singlet no protection from the thorns and burrs of the mallee scrub and spinifex grass through which she had burrowed?Lees fell into Miller's arms and began sobbing out her tale of horror. "This whole thing is really so bizarre," says Police Commander Bob Fields, who is leading the investigation...
...many clamor to tell their own stories. But Syamsudin won't be interrupted. "I don't feel that I've committed any sins. We were there according to the laws of the country." He stands up straight, head raised, dignified despite the fact he is wearing only a singlet and the tattered brown trousers he had on when he fled his home. "That...