So far in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the American military has lost two Abrams tanks. The first M1s ever destroyed by enemy fire in battle, they were caught in an ambush of the U.S. Army’s 3/7 Cavalry near As Samawah, on the west bank of the Euphrates River. Two is not a large number, and the Coalition forces have at least 650 tanks in Iraq with more on the way. But U....
But will they tell? More than two years after Cesaire’s on-air partner, Jean-Claude Olivier, was gunned down and killed leaving a nightclub party, police are still trying to put together a case against the man they say pulled the trigger. A few weeks later, a gunman shooting the same .38-caliber pistol killed Fritz Dor, 33, the host of three pointedly political talk shows broadcast to Miami’s Haitian–exile community. Prosecutors believe the radio hosts were marked because of their passionate commentaries....
The early signs are mainly positive. In his first act as prime minister, Koizumi assembled the freshest cabinet Japan has seen in at least a generation, assigning several top posts to women and private-sector professionals, instead of LDP candidates. For foreign minister, he picked Makiko Tanaka, 57, the tough-talking, English-speaking daughter of a legendary former prime minister. But reformist P.M.s with interesting hair and bold plans have risen before in Japan–and fallen just as quickly....
“Transmigration” begins with city sounds–cars, sirens, footsteps–and a boy’s voice repeating the word “missing” like a tolling bell. Over hushed strings and chorus, the names begin: “John Florio, Christina Flannery…” From up in the third tier, a mournfully soaring trumpet. A false climax with kettledrums and jangling bells coming at you in waves, then a sudden quiet space and back to street noise. Then the real climax, the chorus savagely belting out, “I wanted to dig him out....
Until lately, things haven’t been much fun for the man once hailed as the auto industry’s rock-star CEO. Back when he turned around a nearly bankrupt Nissan in 2000, Ghosn was so revered that he became the subject of a superhero comic book in Japan. Bill Ford tried to hire him, and last year General Motors’ largest shareholder sought to engineer a marriage with Nissan and Renault (Ghosn is chief of both companies, which hold equity stakes in one another)....
“He broke out of two maximum security prisons,” Womack says. “And if he hits the streets…” Hall’s unnamed character cuts him off. “He’s not gonna hit the streets, Jim. Thirty years ago, he was a highly trained SAS operative. He is my age now, for Christ’s sake. I have to get up three times a night to take a piss.” MORE: MLB’s best 3B? | Should Yankees panic? Mason did wind up hitting the streets, of course, but Hall’s line, delivered when he was 65, is one to remember about A-Rod, for once a urine reference that has nothing to do with drug testing....
So the Yankees are well within their rights not to fork over an extra dime to their designated hitter, especially if you share Brian Cashman’s interpretation of Rodriguez’s $6 million bonus for reaching 660, as reported by The New York Times: “We have the right but not the obligation to do something. And that’s it. It’s not ‘you do this, you get that.’” MORE: Classic images of Willie Mays...
Pomeranz was injured when he whacked the back of a chair Monday night following his shortest outing of the season. Right-hander Evan Scribner, who was on Oakland's opening-day roster, was recalled from Triple-A Sacramento. The A's also acquired minor league lefty Brad Mills from the Milwaukee Brewers for cash. Pomeranz took the loss Monday night against Texas after allowing a career-high eight runs — seven earned — in 3 2-3 innings....
After the court found for the Boy Scouts, conservative groups hailed the decision as a landmark victory for the rights of private associations. Scout leaders expressed relief that their long court fight was over. But while the legal wrangling may be done, the larger gay-rights struggle rages on. “I think that I’ve fought the good fight and I saw my part through to completion,” Dale, 29, told NEWSWEEK. “But maybe now the torch gets passed to somebody else....
Hesse was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Hamburg, Germany, in 1936. She escaped the Holocaust on a children’s train to Amsterdam and, reunited with her parents, moved to New York in 1939. After studying art at Yale, she met and married the sculptor Tom Doyle in 1961, and began a career as a painter. Truth be told, she was an ordinary one. She first did brushy, introspective portraiture, then tried to liven things up with compositions that looked cartoony....
title: “A Sight For Sore Eyes” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-04” author: “Desiree Towe”
But many things have changed since 2005, the last time I worked in Iraq. The old, familiar Humvee has morphed into a demented, humpbacked narwhal on wheels, surmounted by an elaborate super-structure enveloping the gunner on the roof. Protruding out front is a device that looks like a square ping-pong paddle with a long, attenuated handle. Called a WARLOCK, it emits electronic countermeasures to block signals that can trigger IEDs....
Criminal charges against the president remain an extremely remote possibility and would probably be challenged as unconstitutional because it might impinge on the Senate’s exclusive right to impeach. But Mrs. Clinton remains potentially vulnerable. Last month, the FDIC’s inspector general concluded that Mrs. Clinton drafted a legal document connected with an Arkansas real estate project known as Castle Grande. The brief, the FDIC said, was intended to “deceive” federal regulators in 1986 and direct $300,000 in questionable commissions to one of Jim McDougal’s associates – and Mrs....
Why Does Stroke Affect Smell? The sense of smell is not usually the stereotypical handicap we think of as being associated with a stroke. Overall, people tend to notice the more dramatic consequences of brain damage after a stroke, such as arm weakness, facial drooping, or vision loss. People do not normally panic when they notice that they can’t smell as well as they used to. But the areas of the brain that work together to allow us to sense and interpret smells can be damaged by a stroke....
The hitch? The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s rules allow the city to rebuild the St. Bernard sewers only as they were, not to upgrade them into a more modern system that officials want. This regulation on disaster assistance—which authorizes work “on the basis of the design of such facilities as they existed immediately prior to the disaster”—is hindering rebuilding efforts. “President Bush came down here and said we were going to bring back the Gulf Coast … better than before,” Rodriguez says....
As the bomb went off in Manchester, Martin McGuinness, a key leader of Sinn Fein, was in Northern Ireland giving an interview to NEWSWEEK’s London bureau chief, Daniel Pedersen. Predictably, McGuinness blamed British Prime Minister John Major for the IRA’s decision to end its previous ceasefire with a string of bombings that began in London last February. He claimed that Major had ganged up with Irish Prime Minister John Bruton to prevent the nationalists from “taking our place at the [negotiating] table” by demanding that the IRA surrender some of its weapons....
The capsule is due to launch on an uncrewed test-flight mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that will also serve as a cargo delivery. The launch should have taken place days ago, but engineers encountered a problem with the spacecraft’s valves that meant they didn’t open correctly shortly before a scheduled launch on August 3. As a result, Starliner had to be taken off the launchpad and returned to its hangar....
Roman caught flak on social media after she was quoted in an interview accusing both Tiegen and Kondo of selling out by partnering with major home goods brands after having success with their best-selling books. Roman’s remarks were considered offensive by some fans and followers, including Teigen—a model, TV personality and author of the 2018 cookbook Cravings who also helms a line of cooking utensils. Kondo, author of 2011’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and star of the Netflix series Tidying Up With Marie Kondo, has released collections of household items and goods....
