Word: commander
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...public. Obama's refusal made him seem less than courageous. It played into the notion that he wasn't a very good debater and that McCain was at his best in town meetings--an argument with elements of truth but also a fair amount of mythology. Obama has command of more facts on more issues than McCain does; McCain's strength at town meetings feeds off friendly crowds who roar at the jokes he's been telling for years. Obama's demeanor will show well on the debate stage; McCain's feistiness may not. And so Obama would be wise...
...ancient China, the Emperor Han (Li) means to secure the secret of eternal life from priestess Zi Juan (Yeoh), who loves the Emperor's second-in-command Ming Guo (Amer-Asian hunk Russell Wong; he battled Li in the Hollywood actioner Romeo Must Die). But the priestess has placed a curse on the Emperor: his eyes start bleeding a brown syrup and, in no time, he turns into a chocolate soldier. He and his thousands of soldiers are encased in terracotta - until 1946, when a modern Chinese general (Anthony Wong) sets Emperor Han free to wreak havoc on his homeland...
...Brennan feel hate at first sight as quickly as their parents found love. Their resentment comes from territorial rivalry, but even more the fear that their comfortable situation, of being the sole object of a parent's pampering, is over right now. Learn to share - that's the implicit command. Play well with others. Two words: grow...
...Perle agreed, is ''not the defense of the nation as a whole, not of every city and person in it, but the defense of America's capacity to retaliate.'' Thus he saw a more realistic mission for a space-based defense system: guarding ''our critical defense installations, ballistic missiles, command and control facilities.'' He added that ''a 50% effective defense could make a significant and I think vital stabilizing contribution.'' Later at the conference, when Arms-Control Adviser Paul Nitze was informed of Perle's statements, he expressed surprise. ''I know for a fact,'' said Nitze, ''that it is contrary...
...government's development agency has targeted international services as a high-priority area for attracting foreign firms to the country. Compucorp, a California-based information-services company, is able to hire Irish programmers and computer engineers for about one-third the $50,000 annual salary that they would command in the U.S. The company now employs 66 people in Ireland. Irwin Cohen, president of Virginia- based ILM Corp., a data-processing firm, points out that ILM's Jamaican subsidiary was founded in 1964 to meet a shortage of American computer operators. Now, he says, operating in Jamaica is ''very similar...