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...Nearby, a young history student who had driven three hours to the site placed bits of rubble in a small plastic bag. "I will put it in my home," the student said. "It is holy." --Reported by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Michael Duffy, Mark Thompson, Douglas Waller and Adam Zagorin/Washington; Brian Bennett/Ramadi; Hassan Fattah, Romesh Ratnesar and Vivienne Walt/Baghdad; and James Graff/Paris
...staffing industry has become increasingly specialized, creating niche firms for temporary doctors, nurses, accountants, engineers, IT consultants, legislative aides, even personal assistants for celebrities. Despite such tailorization, the uncertainty and volatility for the individual temp workers remain. "You have no guarantee of tomorrow," says Allan Thompson, 48, a state-and local-tax specialist in Dayton, Ohio, who signed on with a temporary accounting-services firm this spring. "But people could arguably say there's no guarantee when you have a full-time job either...
...With reporting by Massimo Calabresi, Matthew Cooper, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington and Hassan Fattah, Romesh Ratnesar and Simon Robinson/Baghdad
Audiences are frequently left with the same impression. Crowe enjoys the trappings of celebrity: he has had nights out in Brisbane with Bruce Springsteen, dinner parties in London with Emma Thompson and a series of odd phone calls from Michael Jackson. ("He used to put on these funny voices and then giggle, 'Oh, Russell, it's Michael.'") But Crowe has yet to fully make his peace with being famous. "I think in a lot of ways I'm my own worst enemy, because I won't answer simple questions," he says. "And it's not because I'm arrogant necessarily...
Wheelihan swept in along the left wing to put it into the open net. Instantly, the momentum the Crimson had built up with two second-period goals from junior Tom Cavanagh evaporated into the roar of the Thompson Arena sellout...