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Long before Mel Gibson was pulled over by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies in Malibu for drunk driving, the entertainment news website TMZ.com - whose name is an acronym for the "thirty-mile zone" around Hollywood - had shown a knack for giving the world an unblinking, and often unflattering, view of celebrity shenanigans. "We report things as soon as we learn them and can confirm them," the website's general manager, Alan Citron, says. "I think that and the unvarnished nature of our coverage, which isn't the standard red-carpet grip-and-grin, has made us stand...
...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 to be a part of this country than to serve overseas in a combat zone," Lopez tells Time. "People always talk about the immigration problem, but we can show we bring good to the country, too." Immigration advocates see no problem as the number of non-native troops rises. "They want to serve the country," says Michele Waslin of the National Council of La Raza...
...take the oath of citizenship outside the U.S., as 176 did on July 4th in Afghanistan and Iraq. Given the way the wars in those places are going, a speedy, cut-rate route to U.S. citizenship is could be another enticement to keep fresh troops flowing to the war zone...
...episode, a precursor of Rice's outmaneuvering of Bush hard-liners when she became Secretary of State, is revealed in Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a forthcoming book about the Green Zone by the Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran. The details were confirmed for TIME by an official who was involved, who added a telling coda: Bremer actually liked the new arrangement because he "got to deal with Condi, who had the President's ear." Since moving out of the West Wing to take over State in early 2005, Rice has returned there often...
...survivor of a catastrophe that took the lives of others, they all seem to feel a certain degree of guilt. That much was clear earlier this week, when four recent evacuees from Lebanon talked of their harrowing experiences, and how their relief at getting out of the war zone has been tempered by their continuing concern and sadness over the thousands more left behind -- both the living and the dead...