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Olga and Ed also had a "problem" when they exchanged with a couple in Missouri who had neglected to get new license plates on their Mitsubishi, and the Bowes were stopped by the police almost as soon as they took it out of the driveway. "We can't use this car!" they called their home to complain. "Oh, sorry," said their swappers. "Just use the car in the garage--the white Jaguar...
Wolf made her first foray into presidential politics in 1995, as an adviser to Clinton's own once secret consultant, Dick Morris. In his book about that campaign, Morris wrote that he met with Wolf--whose husband David Shipley was then a White House speechwriter--every few weeks for almost a year. Morris credited her for helping "persuade me to pursue school uniforms, tax breaks for adoption, simpler cross-racial adoption laws and more workplace flexibility. She often said that the candidate who best understood the fatigue of the American woman would win." Wolf also persuaded Morris that the country...
...pair ended up in Hamburg almost by accident. Frankel planned to stay just a few days until he could concoct a new plan. They dined at La Mer, the hotel's seafood restaurant, and occasionally went out for the evening to Hamburg's red-light district. Allison set out on daily fact-finding missions to discover what had been written about Frankel's case...
...problem with simply discarding hope for an on-the-ground insurgency is that the in-the-air war is expensive and, top commanders will sometimes admit, ineffective. Almost every day at Incirlik is Groundhog Day, as in Bill Murray's 1993 film. "You wake up, you come in, you get ready to launch the aircraft, you launch the aircraft, they come back, you recover them, you go home," says Staff Sergeant George Palo, who maintains aircraft fuel systems. "We don't have a lot of calendars around here, because the only day that counts...
...first infiltrate Iraq. They would be followed by 5,000 U.S.-trained Iraqi guerrillas, who would seize territory under U.S. air cover and encourage demoralized Iraqi army units to defect to their cause. Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey would take U.S. support a step further. Containing Saddam with sanctions and almost weekly aerial attacks against his sam batteries "has failed," Kerrey argues. "I favor committing U.S. ground forces and air forces" to topple the dictator...