in the spotlight: Military service, celebrity-style By Anna Malpas Published: October 19, 2011 (Issue # 1679) Last week, Channel One started a new show called “Special Assignment,” where famous people have to put on khakis and join the Russian army for six weeks. The show’s brilliant trailers had Russian tanks waltzing in sync on sand, which looked like a satire on modern warfare — until the waltzing […]