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...Private First Class Tristan Wyatt, who was standing at the rear of the armored personnel carrier (APC), unloading an M-240 machine gun at a dozen or more Iraqis who had ambushed them minutes before. He was the first to be hit. The RPG then passed through Sergeant Erick Castro's hip, spinning him violently to the floor. His left leg was still attached--but barely. "I picked up my leg and put it on the bench," he says, "and lay down next to it." Finally, the RPG shredded Sergeant Mike Meinen's right leg. "It was pretty much torn...
...film has proven successful, if controversial. At a packed premiere at the Castro Theater in San Francisco, Dubowski recalls a sign that read, “two Jews and a Baptist will do anything for tickets.” It was further lauded at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001, and since then Dubowski has been what he calls, “trembling on the road.” He estimates that about three million people have seen the film worldwide...
...with five unique words, all of three or four letters. The final score was 5 to 5, and unfortunately, no bragging rights were awarded. “[The Boggle match] was much like the Cuban Missile Crisis—except without the missiles, danger of global annihilation or Castro, and it happened in Cambridge,” says Aguilar. However, both presidents can report back to their clubs that they demonstrated some board game entrepreneurship, if not a downright willingness to cheat, in their quest for Boggle glory...
Chomsky’s most recent blunder came on his Oct. 28 lecture in Cuba. With Cuban President Fidel Castro in the audience, Chomsky argued that, after the failed effort in Iraq, Bush and his cronies would have to “manufacture” another enemy in order to be re-elected...
Talk about alienating yourself from a larger audience. Riling up Fidel Castro doesn’t exactly win you friends in America...