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President Bush watched Gonzalez, himself an immigrant Army vet, swear in the three new soldier-citizens last week. Specialist Sergio Lopez, originally from Mexico City, moved to Bolingbrook, Ill., in 1998, and joined the Army in 2003. "He put his life on the line each day driving between observation posts and his unit's forward operating base in the Baghdad area," Bush said at the ceremony. Ten days into his second tour of Iraq in January, Lopez, 24, lost both of his legs to a roadside bomb. "There's no better way to prove that you want...
...Looking at the magazine for the first time (I swear) in 40-some years, I discovered that my teenage view of it hasn't changed. It's still a good-looking book with more airs than eros...
...comic sensation Brooke [Brookers] Brodack.) Online, the competition is not just CBS and Fox: it's college kids on MySpace and raunchy comedy sites like collegehumor com The networks can't take as many risks online--even though the FCC can't touch them there. Daniels considered letting actors swear in the Office webisodes but says he didn't think "people wanted to hear their favorite characters shouting profanities they wouldn't hear on the regular show." Advertisers sure wouldn't; one reason they're urging the networks online is not to have their mutual-fund spots run next...
...happy we are willing to pay a lot for it, which is why the worst Belgian chocolate is more expensive than the best Belgian tofu. But that process can work in reverse: when we pay a lot for something, we assume it makes us happy, which is why we swear to the wonders of bottled water and Armani socks. The compulsion to care for our children was long ago written into our DNA, so we toil and sweat, lose sleep and hair, play nurse, housekeeper, chauffeur and cook, and we do all that because nature just won't have...
...speech, which he says was inspired in part by an encounter at a cocktail party he attended as a pre-frosh. “I met one terrible Harvard person,” Burkle said, “and I was like ‘I swear I will never be that man.’” Nevertheless, Burkle fears that in some ways he has not been able to escape the stereotypical Harvard air. “My speech is basically about how we’re cripplingly smart, and so I feel like no one else...