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...Caucus in challenging the electoral results in 2004 in Ohio. (Civil rights groups complained that African-American voters there faced long lines and other problems casting their ballots.) But after Hurricane Katrina, Obama toured the devastated areas with Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush and then appeared on CBS?s Face the Nation and ABC?s This Week to blast the federal government?s sluggish response and highlight the racial and economic gaps it exposed. The interviews marked his first appearances on the Sunday morning political shows since taking office. ?It was a moment I thought I might...
Trouble also comes by sea in CBS's Threshold (Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.), but this time it's an alien invasion. A Navy vessel is visited by a spacecraft that resembles a shape-shifting Christmas ornament; the boat's surviving crew members have their DNA reprogrammed with alien code and turn evil. So Washington calls in Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino), a worst-case-scenario consultant, and assembles a team of eccentric scientists. The cast is startlingly good--there's also Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent) and Charles S. Dutton (Roc)--given that the actors have to deliver lines like...
Having survived the storm and the chaos that followed, those who remained in the city absorbed the evacuation orders with a mix of resignation and rage. Tom Drummond, a bassist with the alternative rock band Better Than Ezra, performed on the CBS Early Show two days before Katrina hit. Although his home in the Garden District survived, his wife's new clothing store was looted in the hurricane's aftermath, only days after her fall collection had arrived. Drummond plans to tour while his wife stays with her family in McComb, Miss. "Got to go where...
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...Korea, and landed in Vietnam as the great hope of the Johnson Administration. But after the 1968 Tet offensive fueled opposition to the war, he was brought back home to the lower-profile position of Army Chief of Staff. A $120 million libel suit he filed in 1982 against CBS, over a story that said he misled the White House and public about enemy troop strength, also ended with a whimper, settled with both parties claiming victory. Still, Westmoreland inspired enthusiasm among many of those he commanded. "He was the storybook soldier, South Carolina Eagle Scout, a born leader," retired...