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...when the Washington started for the Persian Gulf--it will arrive later this week, though its attack planes will be in range much sooner--13 of the 18 vessels in its battle group stayed behind. The Pentagon is planning to use air power alone--escalating waves of ship- and submarine-launched missiles and aircraft-based missiles and bombs--to shove Saddam back into compliance. "I don't think anybody's looking at days and days of B-52 strikes on Republican Guard barracks," a senior Navy official says. "But when the dust settles after each strike...
...young pilots had spent hours over midnight rations ("midrats") picking the brains of the two senior aviators in the squadron who flew into Iraq the first harrowing night of Desert Storm in 1991. "Everybody on the ship is prepared," McLaughlin says. "We all understand our role here as instruments of policy--gunboat diplomacy. Now it's like the old adage, 'Put me in the game, coach.'" The Nimitz's fighter pilots had devoted two weeks to poring over secret lists of targets in Iraq, according to Pentagon officials. The strikes, by Navy and Air Force jets as well...
Where do these items go? What does one do with a megaphone, anyway? Living in a tiny Adams House single, I tend to stack items on my dresser, leaving it crowded with silly plastic toys. My mug collection grew so large last year my roommates made me ship two boxes of mugs home to my parents...
...Godard movie or something." Or something is right. The highest concentration of these retro-bikes can be found on the racks in front of Gato Rojo and the Graduate School of Design. But the quintessential retro-bike, the Platonic ideal of retro-bikes, the mother ship herself--a model with both a wicker basket and a leather pouch--usually sits regally locked outside the Signet Society. She awaits your admiration...
Charles and Camilla: Unsinkable? Prince Charles took the children of his mistress Camilla Parker Bowles to the royal premiere of "Titanic" Tuesday night. One reporter called it "a defiant signal to the prince's critics and a clear sign that his relationship with their mother ? unlike the ship ? was far from sunk." For more celebrity news, click on People Daily...