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Though that day in the jungle was more than 60 years ago, people still ask Ted Kenna why he did what he did. Why, with Japanese machine guns pinning down his company from less than 50 m away, did he decide to stand up and fire back, killing the enemy crew even as their bullets passed between his arms and body? And the 86-year-old is still surprised people wonder at what is so clear to him: "I found myself there, and to see, I had to get up - and to get up, I had to show myself...
...view a parliamentary system as one way of doing that. You say the switch should come by July 2006. do you insist on that timing? I'm saying we have 10 months, maybe 12 or 15?that's what the country can probably stand. Look at our peso, our credit ratings, look at the poor below. [He points from his 26th floor window to the streets and slums of Makati.] How urgent...
...backfiring on those who care about teaching evolution. When scientists and science teachers boycotted the discussion of biology standards at a Kansas school-board meeting last May, they left the floor wide open to critics of evolution, who won the day. "Are they wilting young maids that can't stand the heat of a hearing?" asks Washington attorney Edward Sisson, who was a co-counsel for the 23 academics who testified on the anti-Darwin side...
...tune. DANE COOK'S Retaliation is the highest-charting comedy album (No. 4 on Billboard) since Steve Martin's A Wild and Crazy Guy in 1979. Though his success surprised most of the off-campus public, "I kind of felt the rumblings of this happening," says the Boston stand-up star, whose college fans throw listening parties for his albums. Next Cook plays "in-your-face, misogynistic, rude cook Floyd" in the feature-film comedy Waiting. Sounds like a guy whose wait is over...
...which a white kid uses the N word during a fight scene. October brings an animated version of Aaron McGruder's militantly funny comic strip The Boondocks to Cartoon Network. Ridley, once a writer on Martin Lawrence's sitcom Martin, says that means there is more pressure to stand out. "When I started out," he says, "black TV was very limited--Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Homeboys in Outer Space. Now they're raising the bar. We can't just give people more of the movie. They can get that...