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...armor for their vehicles, especially humvees. While waiting for official testing and deployment of armor approved by the Department of Defense, we immediately took measures to protect our soldiers. As contingency contracting officers, we sought, obtained, tested and procured from a couple of Iraqi vendors 1⁄4-in.-thick steel armor that stopped ballistics, including AK-47 rounds and shrapnel. Many officers and soldiers have said the local Iraqi armor saved their lives. Scott A. Meehan Major, U.S.A. Orlando, Florida, U.S. An honest answer from Rumsfeld would have gone like this: "You lack armor because we are incompetent...
...after dinner. Picchi calls his new labor of love a Circo-lo - a play on the Italian for circus and club. Picchi, 50, clearly relishes greeting guests and cooking with his crew in the open kitchen, announcing the arrival of fragrant tureens of saffron risotto, polenta with cinnamon and thick Tuscan soups like farinata (with cornmeal and black cabbage). Afterward, the chef presents the show. "I'm having fun here now," he says, "but Il Cibrèo is towing everything." tel. [39-055] 200 1492; www.teatrodelsale.com
...after dinner. Picchi calls his new labor of love a Circo-lo?a play on the Italian for circus and club. Picchi, 50, clearly relishes greeting guests and cooking with his crew in the open kitchen, announcing the arrival of fragrant tureens of saffron risotto, polenta with cinnamon and thick Tuscan soups like farinata (with cornmeal and black cabbage). Afterward, the chef presents the show. "I'm having fun here now," he says, "but Il Cibr?o is towing everything." (39-055) 200 1492; www.teatrodelsale.com
When the team returns, they will be thrust back into the thick of the conference schedule, with home meetings against Princeton and Yale on January 28th and 29th...
...most modern technology can't surmount. "What is he saying?" one man asks. Satellite, whose grasp of English stretches to "Hello," stares intently at the screen, as if trying to find just the right words. "He says it's going to rain," the boy replies. Such wry scenes come thick and fast in the first half of Turtles Can Fly, the third feature from Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi, which started its Europe-wide release in Britain last week. It's his funniest film yet, which is surprising, given that it is populated by children who have lost limbs...