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...Dylan nerdier but more confident. Yet a slender but tough strand still connects the boys, and they fight against all the usual suspects--racism, violence, their parents' failing marriages--to keep it. In the novel's second half, really an extended epilogue, Lethem follows his principals into lives rendered bitter and crooked by the unresolved anger of their Brooklyn beginnings...
...Though the damage being wrought by the insurgents is plain to see, their identity is not always clear. Bremer describes the insurgents as "Baathist bitter-enders," but other U.S. officials say the attacks come from a number of quite distinct forces. Remnants of the regime's security and intelligence services certainly play a major part, and Bremer's decision to summarily dissolve the Iraqi army and the Interior Ministry may have swelled the ranks of those willing to fight on. Secret documents reportedly issued by Saddam's security services shortly before the war instructed operatives to join up with Islamic...
...Still, the bridges that formed the frontline remained a bitter zone. Rebels had come out to taunt the government soldiers, stripping naked to call them monkeys. Waves of civilians had tried to cross three times, only to be turned back by the fighters. On the far side, rebels drove up and down between looted, bullet-pocked shops, laughing and singing rude songs about Taylor. Celebratory shots rang from the streets. "There will be no fighting again,"? said Lahar Kiazulu, 21, his Klashnikov spray-painted white. "Because if he leaves the country, he is the only man we are fighting against...
...suicide kicks the already bitter fight over whether Blair oversold the case for war into more treacherous ground. At a news conference in Japan on Saturday, a reporter went so far as to ask a visibly drawn and shaken Blair if he had "blood on his hands"--because his communications director, Alastair Campbell, was instrumental in arranging for Kelly to testify. The committee was investigating whether Campbell had "sexed up" the dossier Blair released last September on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, as a BBC reporter claimed. Kelly had denied being the source for that claim. After exchanges in which...
...beaten-up Thoroughbred who becomes a champion in the 1930s. Seabiscuit is discovered by a broken-down cowboy (Chris Cooper) and a rich dilettante named Charles Howard (Jeff Bridges), who nurse him back to health. They need a rider who can handle him. Enter Maguire as Red Pollard, a bitter, washed-up jockey who was abandoned by his parents as a kid, then grew up too tall to make the big time. Along the way, Pollard lost the sight in one eye, and by the time Team Seabiscuit finds him he's boxing on the side (and losing) to make...