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...question, the husbanding contract provides the potential for mischief. Husbanding agents arrange everything from fuel to spare parts to fresh vegetables for vessels at ports of call. More critically, they often provide security, like erecting concrete barriers and what the military calls ?force protection.? Husbanding agents often learn weeks in advance of a ship?s schedule so as to be prepared when the vessel arrives, information that the Navy keeps closely guarded since it could be invaluable in the hands of terrorists. The suicide bombing of the Cole, for instance, occurred less than three hours after the ship had completed...
...manipulation, Davenport-Hines recognizes Proust's "mastery of human characterization." And the biographer understands his subject's obsession not just to present the personalities and quirks of France's Third Republic, but to be "an historical personage in his own right." In the final chapter, Proust dies in his spare, cold bedroom, and all of France stops. His funeral is as grand as Victor Hugo's, and his legacy of artistic immortality is secure. So secure that the U.S. edition of this book, to be published in May, will be called Proust at the Majestic and will feature only...
...Luckily, they’ve got plenty of time. Alex Turner, lead vocalist and guitarist, is still only 19, and none of his three bandmates have much more than a year on him. Despite this, the sensations from Sheffield have released a self-assured debut with style to spare, even if it’s not the genre-defining album many across the pond wanted...
...says, "the men all had one big frown, as if to say, 'What the hell are you doing here?'" She angrily demanded the infantrymen give her female soldiers breathing space so they could prove their worth. Usually in such circumstances, the men oblige, says Collins, but that doesn't spare women some awkward moments. "Even when I take off my helmet, the Iraqi women don't believe I'm a female," says Sergeant Elizabeth Ricci, 20. "They'll come up and tug my hair." And Iraqi men? "One man saw a ring on my finger and asked...
They do not always conduct themselves with the air of those deserving sympathy, but spare a thought, please, for those inky-fingered wretches, Britain's political journalists. Living and working in the most competitive media market on the planet, they feverishly search each week for fresh color on the London scene, divine earth-shattering significance from what might seem unimportant trifles, discover and celebrate new big beasts in the political jungle. And when events inconveniently fail to match their predictions, they dust themselves off and go at it again. So it was last week, which started with a widespread assumption...