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Back in early June, I awoke one morning to the sound of dozens of helicopters swarming past my apartment toward Hollywood Hills. I feared the worst. It’s a terrorist attack and Jack Bauer is nowhere to be found. But no—turning on CNN, I realized this convoy was bound for Paris Hilton’s courtroom, because she was due back before the judge. (In case you missed it, her privileged butt was sent back to jail.) The news you might have overlooked that day was that Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint...
...professors concede this in the book and adjust their original point: while the lobby would have preferred to attack Iran, they say, it was perfectly happy to support an invasion of Iraq after it saw the direction in which the Bush administration was heading...
...presidential candidates who regularly patrol the sacred ground; Giuliani goes there in every speech, Edwards talked about confronting terrorism a few blocks from Ground Zero, and the entire political debate this week is wrapped around the progress of a war that magnifies memory and distorts it. The 9/11 attack united us; the response to it divides...
...homefront remains on alert, but in a leisurely, one-eye-open kind of way. Police at the Pentagon scrape the air for signs of radiation or chemical attack, track the wind direction to guide escaping employees. But 9/11 Commission chairs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton used the anniversary to remind people that security remains a shield with holes. Most air cargo is still not screened, the high-tech bomb detectors are indefinitely delayed, and Congress demands tighter standards for drivers' licenses but won't fund them. The broadcast industry has until 2009 to turn over the spectrum that rescuers need...
...blocked the Crimson, 14-3, with Jenilee Rathje setting a new Big Ten freshman record for blocks in a game. But Harvard was able to play evenly with Michigan State in almost every other category.“When we realized we could hang with them, we started attacking and playing back at them,” Trimble said.Harvard struck first in the third game on an ace from sophomore Chelsea Ono Horn. Michigan State twice managed to draw the score even, but the Crimson rebuffed any Spartan attempts to take the lead.In the fourth frame, Harvard...