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...understaffed U.S. military in the shadows of the Iraq war. Fainaru, a Washington Post reporter and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, was embedded with the mercs of Crescent Security Group--a ragged outfit that "commutes to war" in armored pickup trucks from their Kuwait City villa, braving ambushes and enemy fire to help ferry convoys and cargo along Iraq's perilous highways. Some--like Jonathon Coté, a former paratrooper who plays practical jokes on his comrades and doles out toys to local kids--earn their paychecks and adrenaline rushes with honor. Others are renegade cowboys with AK-47s, issuing pronouncements like...
...FIRE IN THE KITCHEN
...about 10:40 a.m., a fire broke out in the kitchen, the first significant fire in the restaurant’s history...
...spite of the fire, Bartley retained the optimism that his father carried with him when he first opened the restaurant in the Square, and by the following month, the restaurant was once again a bustling location for tourists, students, and Cantabrigians...
...fire may have physically closed the restaurant, but it did not preclude the managers from continuing to work...