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Absenteeism. Critics of the Guard have long charged that the ranks of some units have been artificially swollen with "ghosts" -- phantom soldiers who remain on the payroll even though they have missed more than the nine drills allowed by Pentagon regulations. "The Guard has people who show up for two or three drills, and they're never taken off the books," says John Womack, who retired as adjutant general of the Montana National Guard in 1980. "They're kept on the records as long as they can be, so when their strength figures go to Washington, they're still...
...Hollywood, swollen egos can lead to skyrocketing costs. Movie-industry insiders say megastar Bruce Willis was unhappy with the look of his receding hairline and bald spot in the prints of Hudson Hawk, the $45 million action film scheduled to open next week. So Tri-Star Pictures hired a special-effects firm to retouch every offending frame...
...first collage painting, Celebes, 1921, is one of his funniest. It started life as an anthropological photo of an African corn bin. This reminded Ernst of an elephant. Then he saw a swollen human figure in it -- a failed behemoth, which he associated with the absurd and nasty king of Alfred Jarry's proto-Surrealist comedy, Ubu Roi. Add to that a dirty children's rhyme he remembered from his school days, which in English would have been a limerick; it concerned an elephant in Sumatra that tried to, well, connect with its grandmother. The naked woman in the foreground...
Cautious evaluation of military plans is always a good idea, but pressure to increase spending may get out of hand. At the very least, it would make it more difficult to reduce a budget deficit swollen by the huge effort in the gulf -- even if only marginally, thanks to the allies' contributions. The coming scramble for defense dollars is an ominous sign that many in Washington are ready to learn the wrong lessons from victory...
...think our leaders and our people have wrongly attacked the peaceful people of Iraq," says Navy Lieut. Jeffrey Zaun, 28, his swollen face speckled with dried blood...