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...Pentagon doesn't much like missile defense, because it's going to suck a lot of money from things they consider more important priorities - tanks, troops, ships, things they can move around on the battlefield. Guys in the Pentagon will talk about missile defense as pie-in-the-sky, but that won't really weigh on the bureaucratic outcome. That will depend primarily on the President, and whereas he kept out of the issue of remaking the military, leaving it to Secretary Rumsfeld, who ultimately punted, he's more likely to press hard for missile defense. And if he does...
...comes in the details. Actually playing the battles can be confusing and frustrating. First you must select which armies you wish to use and place them on the battlefield, programming in their initial actions. This works fine, but once you need to start issuing orders on the fly the controls are not intuitive. Even more infuriating, there are many repetitive dramatizations that cannot be turned off. Still, kudos to the designers for not making the battles too terribly hard, but just challenging enough...
...STARTED Soldiers transformed battlefield objects into objets d'art; thanks to the Internet, they're being traded...
...wonder state legislative races last November became so critically important for both parties. The deadlocked presidential election may have captured all the headlines, but the state assembly races were where "the real political battlefield in 2000" occurred, according to one Republican Party memo. Obscure candidates for state offices found themselves flush with millions of dollars from the Democratic and Republican parties. It was money well spent, both parties believed. "From a purely financial point of view," continues the GOP memo, "if the GOP loses this war, the money it will have to spend - perhaps vainly - in attempting to recoup...
...people into four bloody battlefield defeats in less than a decade, presided over a nation's dismantling and masterminded the hate-inspired slaughter of thousands - all in the service of his own political survival - Milosevic's ultimate surrender stunned the world for its utter lack of drama. The magnitude of what it represented was even more staggering: a tyrant who for years mocked the values of civilized nations is now in the international community's custody. When he appears this week at the U.N.'s courtroom in the Hague to hear the charges against him - which include crimes against humanity...