Word: jacksonism
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...rescue unit has a sterling record. The 159th Medical Company (Air Ambulance) has whisked more than 3,600 injured and ill troops to medical help with only a handful dying along the way. "We've given people a lot of tomorrows," says Major Arthur Jackson, chief of the unit's Baghdad squad. But many will face grim times. "People say, 'Well, he didn't die,'" says Captain Todd Farrell, a 159th helicopter pilot. "But a lot of these guys have an arm blown off or their leg blown off below the femur. Their lives are still going to suck...
Audiences are frequently left with the same impression. Crowe enjoys the trappings of celebrity: he has had nights out in Brisbane with Bruce Springsteen, dinner parties in London with Emma Thompson and a series of odd phone calls from Michael Jackson. ("He used to put on these funny voices and then giggle, 'Oh, Russell, it's Michael.'") But Crowe has yet to fully make his peace with being famous. "I think in a lot of ways I'm my own worst enemy, because I won't answer simple questions," he says. "And it's not because I'm arrogant necessarily...
...under his belt. He gapes in agreement as Susan Sarandon reveals that “seeing kids protest [the WTO] makes me well up and get sentimental,” and becomes as giddy as a 13-year-old girl at the prospect of speaking with the Reverend Jesse Jackson for five minutes. At times Hoffman even seems concerningly unaware of his interviewees’ backgrounds and ideologies. Judging by his vehement nods of agreement to every word they utter, he treats radicals such as Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore as sages on politics, and uses the frequently relapsing, often...
...that's altogether different from arriving in a city and finding someone who remembers you and your taste in art or food or wine. Barry Knox, 63, a retired investment banker from New Canaan, Conn., says everyone knows him when he walks in the door at the 10-room Jackson Court, one of the four Joie de Vivre inns in San Francisco. He has been back to the property half a dozen times since 1998, paying about $180 a night. "It's a nice feeling when you're on a first-name basis with the staff even though...
...from my family's point of view. There is no increase in our wallets. There are also no decent job prospects. You sure can't raise a family on $5-$6/hr. Deanna Dunlap Jackson, Mich...