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...unpleasant topic. That is what some Republicans worry has been lacking since Hughes left Bush's side. "This wouldn't be happening if Karen were here," a top G.O.P. adviser to the White House groaned during last year's flap over Bush's flight-suited landing on an aircraft carrier to declare the end of "major combat operations" in Iraq. That example illustrates how Hughes' powers are sometimes exaggerated: she actually helped plan the carrier event and write the President's speech, as she has every major address Bush has delivered since she left Washington. "I was involved," she says...
...gunsights was that al-Qaeda fighters normally vanish when confronted with a sizable force. This time they resisted fiercely, as if to protect someone special. Somewhere between 200 and 400 militants kept 8,000 Pakistani soldiers half a mile away with a steady barrage of small-arms fire, anti-aircraft guns and rocket-propelled grenades. After a day of battle, the army commander called in helicopter gunships, jets and artillery. By Saturday night a cloud of dust hung over the area, but the army had still not defeated the militants. "We've tightened our cordon," said Sultan. "Nobody will escape...
Current chairwoman Ellen Engleman Conners responds that the board is responsible for all modes of transport, not just aviation, and that more people died in surface accidents in 2003 than in aviation accidents. (Historically, however, more than 80% of the incidents investigated by the NTSB have involved aircraft.) "Board members are not investigators," she adds. "We review the work of the staff and make sure the recommendations can be and are implemented. This board is clearly qualified for its role." An airline-safety official disagrees: "The NTSB system is designed for the five board members to provide oversight and balance...
...making a stunned face at the camera, needing to say no more. The humor is in Bush’s straight face, not Stewart’s funny one—all Stewart does is supply the context. Last year, simply showing the footage of Bush aboard the famous aircraft carrier, scored by the “The Daily Show” theme song, did the work of a million mockeries before a joke was delivered...
Stories about geniuses rarely end well. Hahn wound up in the Navy, assigned to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Enterprise, but his officers wouldn't even let him tour the engine room. Champollion died at 40. Fischer never defended his world title. He declined into irascibility and then obscurity. What happened to him? A chess master once said, "Chess is not something that drives people mad. Chess is something that keeps mad people sane." Which is to say that genius may lie not only in having a gift but in lacking something crucial as well. Reading these books...