WWII as Told by Heller's Catch-22 and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-FiveEveryone is talking about the new HBO miniseries The Pacific. While it is well scripted, brilliantly performed, and visually realistic, what really has critics' attention is its jumbled storyline. Herein, they say, lies the series' real strength. So why is it that when we have no overarching narrative, we get bad marks in creative writing, but when Tom Hanks does it, he gets his own miniseries?

Historically, war stories have been told from a zoomed-out perspective that focuses on major events and overall movements. This is a tidy, logical, and totally misleading way of representing war. Just ask any veteran. With...

Market Commentary and Intraday News (AP:WASHINGTON) BP CEO Tony Hayward says he has been "personally devastated" by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and understands the anger Americans feel toward him and his company. Street fights are brutal and very often, it ends in three or less moves. For this article, we will be going through a useful street fighting technique that you can use to overwhelm you aggressors quickly and end the fight. Street Fighting Technique: Attack The Head And Knee To The Groin! The strategy of attacking the head and then going for a knee to the groin is an effective way of overwhelming your opponent quickly. For the strategy to work well, you have...

The Need for Original FashionFashion has and always will be a way of expression, a method through which you can uncover yourself and show the world a glance of who you are.

However, what the world is in desperate need of is not fashion, but original fashion. Original fashion is about seeing outside of the box and sharing new and interesting things with the world.

It is a little hard to believe that original fashion is becoming more and more of a stranger to us in such times of development, but the fact is that people sometimes forget who they are in their attempt to fit in. However, it is not all lost because there are still people who are willing to take a shoot and...

Why You Should Consider Wood FurnitureI imagine the first furniture ever created was created from wood. Granted, it might have been just a lot of stump to sit on, but wood furniture has been around since the very beginning.

Even with all the modern advances and new materials to work with, wood furniture is still highly valued and a big seller. There's a reason for this - wood furniture rocks.

With a lot of different types of woods available, there are a lot of different styles of wood furniture available to the consumer.

This brings us to our first reason to consider wood furniture - emotional comfort. There's just something about walking into a room that has a...

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