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Supporters of building more F-22 fighters have their backs against the wall. The President, the Secretary of Defense, the Air Force leadership and the Senate's top military experts have all declared that the U.S. needs no more than the 187 of the $350 million fighters it has already bought. So the F-22's backers are changing their tactics in demanding more planes, relying on arguments from second-tier officers, citing imaginary threats and introducing the most potent argument of all these days: preserving 25,000 well-paying jobs...
Three canines launched themselves towards me at full speed, jaws unlocked (ready to sink into some gringo flesh, I surmised). Instantly, I morphed into a sprinter, shredding layers of leather off of my driving mocs as I drowned my lungs in icy air...
...Near the theater, we watch a parade of people walk by, dragging air mattresses and blankets and cardboard boxes and yoga mats. Definitely the slept-on-the-street-overnight crowd. We stare...
Wise Latinas may have gotten little air time in U.S. pop culture, but the archetype is an old one among Hispanics: the wizened old woman who serves as a storehouse of folk wisdom - and is occasionally blessed with healing powers. It is the character of solid-like-a-rock Big Mama in Gabriel García Márquez's short story Big Mama's Funerals. It is otherworldly Ultima in Rudolfo Anaya's Chicano lit classic Bless Me, Ultima. And on the telenovelas, it is the kindly older lady who knows who the father of the orphaned deaf-mute...
...pushed for engagement now say a diplomatic initiative appears unseemly given the accusations of vote-rigging by the Iranian government and the security forces' brutal response to the protests. Vice President Joe Biden's July 5 comment that the U.S. wouldn't stand in the way of an Israeli air strike on Iranian nuclear sites made it sound as if the Administration's message in favor of engagement was slipping. (See pictures of people around the world protesting Iran's election...