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...Kosovo, where it was humiliated when it took a month to ship 24 Apache helicopters 800 miles from Germany to Albania. It vowed to transform itself into a lighter fighting force. It is spending $4 billion for a fleet of light, wheeled armored vehicles to be carried to battle aboard moderate-size but plentiful C-130 cargo planes. To keep the Crusader relevant, the Army wants to shrink the two-vehicle system from its current 110 tons to a relatively svelte 80 tons. But each system will still require a gigantic C-5 or C-17 cargo plane to ferry...
...jockey, and he would gallop from place to place, slapping the back of his thighs with his hands to make the sound of a horse's hoofs. His father had a plowhorse named Bill, a long-suffering white mare. The three of us boys would climb aboard the broad acreage of Bill's back and ride her down the oystershell road to the blacktop and then on to Chink's roadhouse, where we would go in by the "Colored" entrance and there, in a barroom twilight amid the stale beer and dead cigarette smells, Charles would with utmost deference approach...
...series, bounced between studios after Douglas originally passed as the drug czar and Harrison Ford expressed interest. Although screenwriter Stephen Gaghan rewrote the script to accommodate Ford's concerns (Soderbergh says the character was originally "extremely passive"), the star ultimately opted out. Before Douglas, pleased with the rewrites, came aboard and Traffic landed at USA Films, the project nearly went under. Soderbergh kept it afloat with $100,000 of his own money. "I just felt like this was the time to make this movie," says the director, who had long been interested in drugs' impact on our culture...
...McCain believes the public is on his side. While he was making his announcement about Cochran's support, Republican senators were hearing a briefing from pollster John Zogby, who argued that the best way for them to reach out to voters is to climb aboard the campaign finance reform bandwagon. "Bulls___," howled Senator Mitch McConnell, the McCain bill's most ardent opponent. Other hard-liners are softening. Senator John Warner said he wouldn't mind a bill to turn back the tide of unregulated attack ads that anonymous groups run against candidates. "In 1978 I knew who I was running...
...Situation Report: Investigators are as near as they're ever going to get to proving a Bin Laden connection in the attack that killed 17 sailors aboard the U.S.S. Cole. They've named the mastermind as a Bin Laden lieutenant who escaped Yemen for Afghanistan before the blast. And Osama, by most accounts, is no micromanager - he provides the money, maintains the networks, issues the fatwas (pseudo-religious decrees to attack Americans all over the world, for example) and then lets his military planners and allies take care of the details. Bin Laden is currently hiding out in the mountains...