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...very often that you have your destiny in your own hands,” Weintraub said. “It’s a tremendous opportunity for us, and that’s exactly where we want to go into Rutgers. We’re going to train really hard...
...either Iraq or Afghanistan is helping to train a new generation of officers. Sallying forth from Baghdad's Green Zone in a heavily armored SUV, surrounded by phalanx of contractors carrying M-4's, and picking up a source on a dark street corner is not classical espionage. As one CIA officer put it, "People coming back from Baghdad and Kabul have to unlearn everything they learn there." (See Pictures of U.S. Troops Patrolling Afghanistan's Deadly Korengal Valley...
...Merde” to end a performance and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven wore a birdcage as a hat to parties. Codrescu amplifies their liveliness with his tight, brisk sentences: “In Sparta, bored out of her mind, the baroness sneaked off to Cincinnati by train to model nude at an art school.” What Codrescu doesn’t explicitly mention, however, is that the tension between posthuman and human is itself a Dada construct. Dada grew out of a disgust at the slaughter of World War I; the impulse to negate all culture...
Definitely competing. I would love not to train--it just wears and tears on your body. But the competing part is just fun. I get such a high standing up against these girls and racing them and just seeing who's the best. And to swim in the Olympic Games--there's nothing that beats that. It's just a thrill...
...Jarre made his way to Paris after the war and contributed incidental music to theater pieces. In 1951, Georges Franju, maker of uncompromising documentaries, hired Jarre to score Htel des Invalides, his study of wounded veterans; it was the first of many Jarre pieces (The Longest Day, The Train, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) that found a sepulchral undertone in martial music. Old masters like William Wyler (The Collector) and Alfred Hitchcock (Topaz) and Young Turks like Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction) and Jerry Zucker (Ghost) called on Jarre to provide music that was subtle and looming, like a shiver...