Word: bracingly
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Baton-twirling fans, brace yourselves. Faced with dwindling ratings, the Miss America pageant has cut the talent competition from its telecast this year. Instead of the live performances that have set the pageant apart from other beauty contests since 1954, next month's broadcast will show a quickie taped montage of talent routines from earlier in the week. The move angered some former Miss Americas, including GRETCHEN CARLSON, who played the violin in 1989 and now is a host of CBS's Saturday Early Show. "It's like somebody training for the Olympics, putting in all that time and commitment...
...long run, making America and its allies safe again will require far broader changes than even the 9/11 panel was empowered to propose. In the meantime, the U.S. has little choice but to brace itself for the possibility of another strike. "We do not believe," the commissioners write in the report's conclusion, "that it is possible to defeat all terrorist attacks against Americans, every time and everywhere." In that sense, the 9/11 commission's legacy may ultimately be determined by how long the U.S. can deter the inevitable. --Reported by Timothy J. Burger; Massimo Calabresi; James Carney; Matthew Cooper...
...South Waziristan. DVDs of him appeared in the bazaars, showing him presenting a rusty sword to Pakistani officers during the cease-fire ceremony, his only compliance with his promise to disarm. Mohammed rumbled around in a pickup truck mounted with a machine gun and appeared in public with a brace of Chechen and Arab bodyguards, on loan from al-Qaeda, say tribesmen. Two weeks ago, Mohammed took a second bride, a teenager...
...Come iTunes (At Last!) Could the wait finally be over? Having sold 85 million songs since its U.S. launch more than a year ago, Apple's iTunes music store is expected online in Europe this week, with the U.K., France and Germany its likely first markets. But Apple should brace for a fight: more than 50 online music sites already play to 800,000 subscribers in Europe. Napster went legit in the U.K. last month, and plans to expand in Europe. Sony Connect plans to cross the Atlantic within weeks. Even Microsoft is reportedly negotiating to put Beatles' songs online...
...pregame decision to take that field with the help of some tape and a brace remained unyielding. Fitzpatrick was a man with a mission that day, and no mere corporal hindrance was going to keep him from going out there...