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...Navy aviator and keen interservice competitor, has been known to crack more than a few jokes at the Marines' expense. McCain says he doesn't read much into Jimmy's decision. "I know that he's aware of his family's service background," he says. "But I think the main motivator was, he had friends who were in the Marine Corps, and he'd known Marines, and he'd read about them, and he just wanted to join...
...Anthony Mann's feature-film career falls into three main phases: noirish melodramas in the '40s, westerns in the '50s, epics in the '60s. Nothing unusual here, since these were the dominant genres of their decades, and nearly every director of middling or higher status was obliged to try his hand at them. But Mann did more than crank out the sausage on order. He turned it into sirloin...
...main reason to join [the DAR] is to honor your ancestors,” she said. “They have every right to be honored like everyone else...
...With its slick Brand Centre, featuring an auditorium, multimedia displays and historical exhibits, Dewar's is the Disneyland of whisky companies. Together with Aberfeldy, the working distillery next door, the center makes up Dewar's World of Whisky, tel: (44-1887) 822 010, one of the Central Highlands' main tourist draws. The onsite store sells everything from CDs and books to ties and baseball caps - as well as bottles of Dewar's famous White Label blend. OLD PULTENEY: Mainland Scotland's northernmost distillery, tel: (44-1955) 602 371, is located on a nondescript road in the fishing town of Wick...
...Suadi Chibli, 45, an Egyptian nurse was in the village of Qawni visiting family when the war broke out. She and her four children, ages 13 to 22, walked for four hours on the main roads, white flags held aloft, to get to the hospital in Tibnine. She is reluctant to tell more of her story because her husband, who is in Kuwait, thinks the family is in Beirut and she doesn't want to worry him. She began to cry, however, as she begged for transportation north. "We just want a car to get out of here to Beirut...