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...generals authorized to shoot a passenger jet out of the sky should they conclude that it poses a threat. The metal detectors are so sensitive that an underwire bra will trip them. So will a candy wrapper. Yet a federal marshal was able to slip through with a buck knife in his pocket. Thus many passengers, returning to the skies last week, resorted to their own incantations: It's never been safer to fly. Lightning doesn't strike twice. If I stay home, they...
...George Bush?s address to the nation was designed to do many things - reassure Arab allies and Muslims around the world that the U.S. was not at war with their religion; rally Congress to support his war effort; buck up the military before its mission commences; and explain to the nation the new world in which it lives. But above all, the speech was at its heart an old fashioned demand that crime not go unpunished...
...George Bush?s address to the nation was designed to do many things - reassure Arab allies and Muslims around the world that the U.S. was not at war with their religion; rally Congress to support his war effort; buck up the military before its mission commences; and explain to the nation the new world in which it lives. But above all, the speech was at its heart an old fashioned demand that crime not go unpunished...
...kick forward, riders bobbing to and fro atop 60 dancing humps. The race comprises two laps of Timia's valley floor - less than 4 miles in total. Adam comes in second to last, and finds a group of sweating men arguing over which of them finished first. The camels buck and bray, feisty as ever...
These are the kind of real-world budget arguments that could pack a punch at the polls a year from now--which is something Harry Truman could appreciate. He understood that the presidency isn't just where the buck stops. It's also--for vital federal programs, paying down the debt and keeping the economy strong--where the bucks start...