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This is not the first time Coelho's management has been questioned. He transformed the Gore campaign several times last year, banishing longtime advisers, firing many members of the campaign high command. His brash style proved to have been right for the moment: Coelho helped hone a sloppy, unfocused operation into one that dispatched Bill Bradley with relative ease and brought the Vice President within striking distance of Bush in the national polls...
...wall of a portable toilet that washed ashore. (The sight, I am assured, is meant to be inspiring.) "There isn't much acting going on today," apologizes director Robert Zemeckis, who teamed with Hanks on 1994's Forrest Gump. It's more like boxing. Hanks clambers, panting, onto the command ship Aftershock, barking, "Big ones! Those were great!" Like a prizefighter, he's wrapped in a towel. He takes a few slugs of Diet Coke, has a mouthpiece popped in--actually a set of prosthetic rotten teeth--gets his scars and scabs touched up and then swings overboard again. Perhaps...
...That chaos is being repeated now, because there are a number of disparate armed groups fighting the rebels; but without a single coherent command structure, they seem prone to get in each other...
Close readers of Notebook will recall that last year a mistaken "crash command" sent a $45 million GLOBAL HAWK pilotless aircraft crashing into the desert. Last week the Air Force detailed another Global Hawk spy-drone embarrassment. This one happened on the ground...
...hooked. Here at TIME, we're digging the new Shogun: Total War ($39.95 from Electronic Arts), which is more about strategy than swordfighting. As always, a family should keep its PC and gaming console in a public place in the home and pay close attention to the games that command the kids' attention. Recently, I had Sunday dinner at a friend's house, and our combined families had a blast helping her 14-year-old son play Driver ($39.99 from Sony). The good news is that my young friend has assured me that next week, if I ask real nice...