Word: soldiers
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...many American troops, the picture of Iraqi troop performance is not quite as rosy. In Hilla, the largest town in the central Iraqi province of Babil, soldiers and residents say the violence was fiercest on March 25. And at least one American soldier said he was angry that the role of Iraqi troops was exaggerated after the battle. "A gunfight broke out and we were fighting [the Mahdi Army] for about four hours," the soldier told TIME. "The army article made it sound like we were just there supporting the Iraqi Army, but we did all the work. We just...
...Another soldier at Forward Operating Base Kalsu in north Babil said he has little confidence in the battle abilities of the Iraqi forces. "Sometimes they start shooting because they heard or saw something, but then there's nothing there," he said...
...TIME Turns 85 I am the same age as TIME, and your pictorial display of 85 back issues [April 14] brought back memories. During 1944 - 45, as a soldier in France and Germany, I received TIME in an abbreviated overseas issue. It was smaller than your regular magazine, printed on a lightweight paper and contained text only - no pictures or advertisements. It would be interesting to see one of those old TIMEs again. William Sale, Norfolk, Virginia...
...publicized trips to either rehab or jail, Downey, 43, is finally claiming the career he was always meant to have, one befitting a fiercely talented, eccentric and magnetic leading man. Later this summer, Downey will appear as an Australian Method actor who is overly committed to playing a black soldier in Ben Stiller's raucous satire of filmmaking and war movies, Tropic Thunder. And in the fall comes another plum role, as a journalist who discovers a schizophrenic Juilliard violinist (Jamie Foxx) living on the streets of Los Angeles in Joe Wright's drama The Soloist. Downey's career feels...
...well as writing.RR: Your thesis wasn’t enough work?CLB: Well, it certainly would have been enough on its own. But this was much more fun than writing that anyway.RR: Do you have a favorite part of the play?CLB: One of my favorites is when the soldier first enters. So much comes out of nowhere, and I think we’ve done a good job with the technical aspects, with video and lighting. I don’t even know how to describe it. It goes into slow motion. I really enjoy watching that every time.RR...