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...Arab with a Star of David...
Arab ambulance drivers, like Arab zookeepers, have learned how to navigate Jerusalem's many borderlines. "I'm suspicious-looking in so many ways," laughs Nasser Izhiman, a volunteer driver and medic for the Magen David Adom (MDA) ambulance service. "An Arab guy wearing the Star of David on my jacket? Nobody knows what to think." In fact, Arab medics--MDA has 75 Arabs among its 1,500 Jerusalem volunteers but is trying to recruit more--are invaluable. Not only can they help serve East Jerusalem, with its maze of unnamed streets, but they are also indispensable for the city...
General David Petraeus' success, however tentative, in turning down the boiling violence in Iraq is winning praise from Washington politicians. But it's his recent trip back to the capital to help select the next crop of the Army's one-star generals that's generating Hooahs! up and down the ranks and may make an even more lasting contribution to U.S. military affairs. Army Secretary Pete Geren, noticing that Petraeus was due to return to the U.S. for a family gathering, decided to saddle the general with an additional task: help groom the service's future leadership...
Petraeus and 14 other Army generals are reviewing the files of about 2,000 colonels, looking for 40 or so worthy of promotion to brigadier general. "This is really unprecedented," says military historian Robert Scales, a retired two-star general and former head of the Army War College. "A whole new generation of officers is coming out of Iraq with new views on how wars should be fought, and its archetype is Dave Petraeus." Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved the unusual assignment, according to Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, because of Petraeus' "progressive" counterinsurgency skills, which rely on persuasion and security...
...family was so renowned for its makeup skills, it was selected in June to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. There were Dad, a makeup guru on Gone With the Wind; Grandfather, who started the first-ever studio makeup department; five makeup-artist uncles; and himself. Over 50 years, Monty Westmore lent his touch to 100 movies, including The Late Shift (for which he created doppelgängers for David Letterman and Jay Leno and scored an Emmy nomination) and Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park and Hook, the latter nabbing Westmore an Oscar...