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NASA'S MARS LANDER Phone home! Second probe in less than three months goes AWOL. Will funding vanish...
...nice to have everyone here, including George Bush--no one is AWOL," said Forbes in his first remarks...
...morning and you find two soldiers, up on the guard shift, polishing their boots in the shower and murmuring in Spanish. Go anywhere - I mean anywhere - without a "battle buddy" and you're at the mercy of any drill sergeant who happens by; technically you can be considered AWOL for walking past the barracks alone. Inside, there is someone everywhere; outside, the PX across the street is unattainable without a whole platoon of your fellow soldiers and a drill sergeant or two to help them in line...
...Grumbling is constant. Someone in the 20th Battalion has gone AWOL earlier in the day. And across from me a private, who is about to go home for a week because his mother died, is staring up at the underside of the bunk above and reading whatever someone has scribbled there: "The Army teaches you truth, and tells you lies." I feel sorry for him well past lights...
Kane & Abel's second album, their first since going AWOL from Master P's No Limit boot camp, nearly bored me to fratricide. Sad too, because the duo would seem to have everything necessary to create a listenable album: a hook (they're identical twins with biblical names--their real names are David and Daniel), legitimacy (born in the Bronx and bred in New Orleans, one of the flashpoints of southern rap) and a cause (their parents were declared unfit when they were a few weeks old). Don't bother looking for any evidence of it on Rise To Power...