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Profiles was received skeptically before it started, partly because producer Jerry Bruckheimer is better known for blow-'em-up movies like Armageddon and partly because the Pentagon had mostly kept news cameras away from the hostilities. Military officials probably thought they would come off better in a series from the maker of Black Hawk Down, and you can see why. There's a little about Afghan civilian casualties--from Afghan-laid mines, not U.S. bombs--and a lot about troops building girls' schools and teaching kids to play baseball. And many of the soldiers' comments are backhandedly political. One sailor...
Even in Turkey, all politics are local. In a major blow to U.S. war planning, a raft of first-term lawmakers broke ranks with their party last weekend to block approval of the deployment of 62,000 U.S. troops to the northern front of a potential war with Iraq. After months of negotiations between the two governments, the vote dealt a serious blow to the Turkish government's efforts to strike a deal with the U.S. "This is a definitive parliamentary decision," Turkey's ambassador to the U.S., Faruk Logoglu, told TIME Saturday. "It's very serious...
...that will not go away. You can hear it if you talk to the early-dinner crowd at the Ocean Breeze Restaurant in famously bellwether Macomb County, Mich. Owner Tom Moragianis voted for President Bush but now is concerned that a prolonged engagement in Iraq could be a mortal blow to an already ailing economy. Or in Chattanooga, Tenn., where people fret that a nearby nuclear-power plant and the hydroelectric dam in the middle of town are being left vulnerable. "The terrorists are still here," says World War II veteran Thomas Murphy. "I really do worry about our troops...
What if the U.S. invades Iraq but can't find Saddam Hussein? Considering how strenuously the Bush Administration has tried to personalize the war--Colin Powell mentioned Saddam 72 times in one presentation to the U.N.--it would be a political blow, particularly after the escape in Afghanistan of Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar. Says Senator John McCain: "It could be an embarrassment, just like bin Laden...
...United and a slew of lackluster sides, including Scottish second division Berwick Rangers. Which is why Gazza has ended up in a training camp in southern Guangdong province, where he will practice for a couple of weeks before heading north to Lanzhou, a city so dirty that when you blow your nose the resulting mess is black. No one expected him to land here with the lowly Gansu Agricultural Land Reclamation Flying Horses, a team that dwells in the basement of China's second division and makes its home in a city that has been named the most polluted...