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...clear that his sights were set even higher. He spoke not just of becoming an effective foil to the LDP but of actually winning a parliamentary majority in the next major election, expected to take place in approximately two years. "We see this [past] election as a stepping stone to gaining political power," he said...
...into a pen-and-ink tirade against the Administration. One scathingly personal series about Condoleezza Rice got the strip banned from numerous papers. Liberal war-horse Doonesbury has unsurprisingly taken on Iraq, but a fresher (and more Rrated) critique comes from Get Your War On (online and in Rolling Stone), written by David Rees using clip-art drawings of cubicle workers sniping...
...woods this summer, wear shoes, socks and light-colored clothing; spray your clothes and skin with an insect repellent that contains DEET; stay on cleared, well-traveled trails; avoid moist, shady areas covered with leaf litter or low-lying vegetation; don't sit on the ground or on stone walls; keep long hair under a cap or tied back; and do a full-body tick check...
...kept most outsiders from his 4,200 acres in a rugged part of eastern Utah. So it was only last week that the public saw, for the first time, his pristine secret: the ruins of an ancient (circa A.D. 900) Fremont Indian civilization. Among the well-preserved treasures are stone houses, arrowheads, pottery and rock-wall artwork...
Combat has always been a way for young Americans to define themselves as a generation. Rolling Stone's Evan Wright was embedded with a Marine reconnaissance unit, and his Generation Kill (Putnam; 354 pages) is a pungently written combat narrative and a close-range study of a bunch of twentysomething warriors trying to get a handle on who they are. At times they come across as cynical adrenaline junkies: "If the dominant mythology of [Vietnam] turns on a generation's loss of innocence," Wright observes, "these young men entered Iraq predisposed toward the idea that...