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...Americans love power. It's about how we see ourselves. It's how we're good when we're very good--with overwhelming force. Our great cars aren't about engineering elegance. No, we start with a 490-cu.-in. V-8. In combat, from the Civil War to Desert Storm, we bring to bear massive, ineluctable power. If that approach can't be done (Vietnam comes to mind), that's not a good American...
...swish, a swoosh, the snick-snack-snick of dueling blades--the nice thing about swordplay is that it doesn't make a lot of noise. When cold steel is their weapon of choice, men can actually exchange snappy dialogue while engaging in mortal combat. Better still, when heroism and villainy go at it mano a mano, a certain clearly identifiable humanity as well as a certain cinematic grace and fluidity is imparted to their conflicts...
DIED. MARION CARL, 83, intrepid World War II flying ace and postwar test pilot; during a robbery of his home; in Roseburg, Ore. One of the Marine Corps' most highly decorated pilots, Carl shot down 16 Japanese planes over Guadalcanal and flew combat missions in Vietnam while in his 50s. He set an air-speed record in 1947, soon eclipsed when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier two months later...
...that Germany offered to withdraw from the World Cup -- an offer unlikely to be accepted not only because it would badly hurt the World Cup, but also since German fans are by no means the only offenders. "Although the offer reflects German sensitivity to the image of skinheads in combat boots wreaking havoc abroad, it is also connected with the 2006 World Cup," says TIME Bonn bureau chief Jordan Bonfante. "Germany wants to host that tournament, which makes them bend over backward to show contrition over this hooliganism in case it affects their bid." Because it won't much help...
...because, while there were other wondrous pure shooters out there who might be more dazzling with an open shot in the open court, no one was better at creating and getting his own shot in difficult, highly contested games than Jordan. No one had a better jump shot under combat conditions. Late in his career, his pure physical skills just slightly diminished, he added a new twist to his jump shot, one in which as he hit the apex of his jump, he fell back slightly. That, because of his jumping ability and the threat he posed to drive, gave...