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...nominate the veterans who ran for Congress for their guts, grit, brains and heart. In Washington, veterans are too often seen as backdrops for speeches but seldom listened to about war and peace and body armor. Now the troops are speaking, and they will change the character of Congress...
...latest Bond film, “Casino Royale,” James’ dame du jour presents an unfamiliarly prickly exterior, mounted atop armor as thick as the new Bond’s skull. In contrast to Daniel Craig’s cuboid appearance, Eva Green, who plays Vesper Lynd, looks remarkably like a pale rose—beautiful, but chilling. She rarely relinquishes control of a scene, digging her thorns deep into the film and filling holes in the spongy plot with a deep well of anger, love, and all that lies in between...
...both, as it turns out. Eventually their game of emotional chess gives way to the film’s interminable poker match, punctuated with gunplay and torture portrayed in more graphic terms than usual for a Bond flick. These convulsions eventually break through the pair’s thick armor and allow them to see what’s at each other’s core: a mirror image. The two are the same insofar as Darcy and Elizabeth from Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” are both stubborn and conceited. Bond and Vesper...
...fuzzy when it tries to describe what exactly Vesper finds attractive in Bond. The writers make it clear that underneath their abrasive defenses, there is some kind of animal magnetism that draws Bond and Vesper together. Before their first earnest kiss, he says, “I have no armor left. You’ve stripped it from me. Whatever is left of me, whatever I am, I’m yours...
...There is a growing sense in the capital that the Baker panel may be reporting too late to do any good. Indeed, hindsight suggests that "Too Little, Too Late" might be a more appropriate title for what the Pentagon christened Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lacking sufficient troops and armor to calm Iraq following the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, U.S. troops were unable to suppress the insurgency that has percolated for three years. Now, with the addition of Shi'ite and Sunni militias fighting for control of Baghdad, the U.S. military doesn't have the firepower, or, it seems...