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...interview Friday, Berman said FAS would weather lackluster fundraising returns and avoid posting a deficit in the current fiscal year, which ends June...
...your other clients. Don't worry about me. I'm thinking about doing something else.'" In May, after returning from a honeymoon trip to the South Pacific island of Bora Bora with his wife Marie, Tillman enlisted, along with his brother Kevin, a minor league baseball player. Determined to avoid publicity, they began the process in Denver, where Pat might not be recognized. But the inevitable news still stunned many people. Tillman was one of the very few active NFL players to volunteer for military service since World War II, in which 638 NFL players served and 19 died...
...space shuttle Challenger and the casualties of Panama and Grenada all passed through for publicized ceremonies attended by politicians and widows. Then, at the start of the first Gulf War in January 1991, the Pentagon barred media from the ritual. Critics speculated that the White House wanted to avoid the embarrassment it suffered two years earlier, when networks showed coffins returning from Panama in a split screen beside President George H.W. Bush joking with reporters at a news conference about the invasion. In announcing the ban, the Pentagon cited a need to protect the privacy of soldiers' families...
...insurgents' ability to intimidate, threaten and often kill Iraqis cooperating with U.S. forces. Three police stations in Basra were attacked last week by suicide bombers, killing 68 people. In Baghdad, police officers say they patrol only when they absolutely have to, and spend much of their time trying to avoid being connected to their U.S. employers. Many wear masks to hide their identities. "All the policemen are afraid," says Sergeant Walid Hani Hamid. "People think the Iraqi police are walking hand in hand with the Americans. We are forced to sneak back to our houses the way the mukhabarat...
Reyna Francisco sued after she was hurt jumping off a moving bus to avoid getting disciplined. Status: Settled...