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...just the armed forces that will have to adapt to guerrilla warfare. So will the public. Americans like their wars to have clean endings, with ticker-tape parades and a memorial on the Mall in Washington. But guerrilla wars aren't like that. Parents of fighting men in the old colonial powers got used to hearing that their sons had died in sordid skirmishes whose names nobody had heard of or - like the six Americans killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan last week - in accidents far from home. Guerrilla warfare may have fine American antecedents, but we have always...
...Democratic National Committee's headquarters in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel complex. The first time they bugged the phone, but on this night they were trying to fix the inoperative listening device. Sent by President Nixon's re-election committee, they set off a cascade of stupidity by taping open the lock on an office door, wrapping the tape in such a way as to be visible to building guard Frank Wills. The first time he saw the gray tape, he peeled it off and threw it away. When he noticed that someone had replaced it, he called the cops...
...fiction in "fictitious times." He said: "We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man who's sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it's the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts." Some members of the audience stood to applaud, but they weren't seen on camera. What was heard was a caseful of boos. The orchestra began playing its get-outta-here music and Moore declaimed, "We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame...
...mission, with commander Rick Husband, pilot William McCool and crew members Laurel Clark and Kalpana Chawla strapped into their seats on the main flight deck. Crewmates Ilan Ramon, David Brown and Michael Anderson were out of view, similarly belted into place on the middeck below. When the tape begins, Chawla and Clark are finishing their suiting up, while Husband and McCool are busy flying the ship...
...avenge a 4-3 regular season defeat to No. 3 Minnesota (27-6-1) and advance to the national championship game. No. 1 Minnesota Duluth (29-3-1) and No. 4 Dartmouth (26-7-0) meet in the other semifinal. The Harvard game will only be shown on tape delay in the Boston area, but it will be broadcast live on WHRB...