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Former army chief Sarath Fonseka stood before a court-martial March 16 on what he called a "bogus" charge of engaging in politics while in uniform. Fonseka, arrested after losing a January election to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, says the detention is intended to prevent him from winning a seat in April's parliamentary elections. The two former allies are credited with ending the nation's civil war with the Tamil Tigers...
...German spy in Billy Wilder's 1953 war comedy Stalag 17. The film provided an early view of Graves' ability to play both a hero type and its own internal contradiction. Throughout the '50s he alternated supporting parts in big films (The Night of the Hunter, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell) with leads in It Conquered the World and other sci-fi anticlassics ripe for later mockery on Mystery Science Theater...
...running around in camouflage, shooting at imagined enemies. Nor does she buy into every conspiracy theory that crackles along the patriot grapevine, like last week's alert that the Oklahoma catastrophe-which "patriots" suspect involved three bombs, not one-was a government plot to enable President Clinton to proclaim martial law and divert attention from forthcoming hearings on the Whitewater financial scandal. Indeed, Miller's attitude toward the Oklahoma City culprits -- "I say hang 'em" -- sounded much like the President...
...passage of health care gives the President's party confidence that they have a fighting chance to keep Palin from commanding her grass-roots army to victory. Don't be surprised if the former Alaska governor, as well as a host of politicians, pundits and the press, use martial imagery to describe events over the next seven months and to rally the troops accordingly. For Palin - and Obama, Reid and McCain - the passage of health care was not the war - it was just the opening battle...
...spectators, crowds whose sizes would exceed capacity of Madison Square Garden. In terms of its scope through television viewership, Ultimate Fighting, run professionally by Ultimate Fighting Championships programming, had the highest ratings for males aged 18-34 on its cable network affiliate. Although the current owners of this mixed martial arts league bought the company for $2 million, Forbes Magazine now rates the company at just over $1 billion. It is not the rise in the popularity of this brutal “sport” that is so shocking; rather, it is the shift in the nature of spectator...