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...zapped off. Schlageter saw a flash and felt a thundering explosion that blew out all his windows. "I grabbed my cell phone, went upstairs to a secure room, called the U.S. embassy and told them we were under attack," he says. A vehicle loaded with explosives had blown up at the gates of the compound...
...lost the U.S. considerable goodwill among the Iraqi population, damaged American credibility abroad and raised the prospect of prolonged turmoil in the country. Now, as a senior U.S. official starkly puts it, "we have a month to [turn things around]" before the people's frustration could turn into full-blown rage...
...that she's playing against all those titanium-equipped Ken dolls, she knows the media circus "will be unlike anything I've ever experienced before." Can she even take her self-imposed pressure? She has shanked before. Her 43 pro wins include four majors, but she has also blown up big time. In 1997, as two-time U.S. Open defending champion, she missed the cut. Last year she did it at the British Open. "I have a tendency to want it too much," she says. "Sometimes I think about Sunday...
...that says nothing about the way the movie from time to time slams to a halt so that gnomic thoughts on what it may mean can be exchanged. In the end, beneath the philosophical tosh and the high-blown action, this movie is just good guys (and gals)--basically, terrifically buff liberal humanists--vs. bad guys, who are, yes, soulless machines, though very nicely dressed...
...While ordinary Acehnese are scared, they are also angry. That anger is directed primarily at the government in Jakarta, of course, which has never convinced the Acehnese it cares much about them. But there is also much resentment at how GAM leaders may well have blown a once-in-a-quarter-century chance to radically improve the lives of their people...