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...tasks required to begin the delivery of reconstruction aid. That transition won't be easy. Among ordinary citizens, there is almost no confidence that the Iraqis will be up to the task, and they are almost certain to face fresh attacks. "Let the Americans think they are winning," a fighter in Fallujah told TIME. "We are not going anywhere...
...Lately the Senator had been openly referring to Rove as "staff scum," a term of endearment he often uses for his own aides. Now the two discussed the political map and the previous day's events in Florida. Flying with Bush to Pensacola, McCain had told tales of his fighter days in that town. And once they landed, McCain was beside himself with excitement about the size of the crowds. "He kept turning to me and hitting me in the arm and saying, 'I've never seen anything like it,'" said Rove. "I thought I was going to have...
Still, Taylor's story is nothing like the layered look at 9/11 trauma, for instance, in the FX fire-fighter drama Rescue Me. Taylor's reminiscence doesn't teach us much about Taylor except that he's really sad, and the episodes still mostly follow the CSI crime-science-confession formula. Indeed, everyone connected with CSI: NY stresses it will still be mainly a procedural, and with good reason. The franchise has dabbled before in the personal lives of its characters; the original CSI tried a continuing story line in which Grissom began to lose his hearing. "We were fascinated...
...ROLLED OUT. F/A-22 RAPTOR, the most sophisticated jet fighter ever made, after 23 years in production in the U.S.; at a Lockheed Martin plant in Marietta, Georgia. Designed at the height of the cold war, the fighter was finally built, after years of political infighting over cost and feasibility, with the help of 1,000 subcontractors in 43 states. The U.S. Air Force plans to buy 277 Raptors at a cost of $258 million each. The stealth fighter can fly 1,500 kilometers per hour without detection and engage enemy aircraft beyond the pilot's range of vision...
...Senator, who once criticized Bush for prancing around in a flight suit on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln beneath a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner, could be found prancing about the backwoods of Ohio costumed as a hunter on a wild goose chase. Those two macho, flamboyantly phony images--fighter jock and gooseslayer--are the sad legacy of this election year...