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...machine gun. We really felt pretty good having that thing in our hands. We didn't know where we were, but we knew that we weren't anywhere near where we were supposed to be. We were getting ready to go ahead and set up some sort of a decent roadblock in both directions when somebody yelled, "Here come the Krauts!" A little stone fence or hedge was leading on into the end of the town. A squad of Germans was following the hedge toward us. Guys popped their rifles at them, and they fired back at us. By then...
Whether or not a decent outcome is eventually achieved, Iraq won't present President Bush with the triumphant centerpiece of a successful reelection campaign. Still, Americans' fear of terror remains a rich seam of political support for the president - indeed, recent polls indicate that while more Americans believe his presumptive challenger, Senator John Kerry, would do a better job handling Iraq, Bush has a significant lead when the question is who would do a better job of fighting terrorism. Not surprisingly, then, the president's handlers have sought to make terrorism the prism through which the Bush presidency must...
...humble power effects a reconciliation between the beasts. So the family evokes a traditional remedy--ages old--and sure enough, as a two-string violinist plays, the mother camel allows her baby to suckle. The directors, Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni, force nothing. They just stand at a decent distance recording a vanishing way of life (power lines and TV sets are already intruding). O.K., the endangered kid here is a calf, but viewers can deal with that little metaphor. Move over, Nanook of the North. Make room for a doleful dromedary--and for that rarest of commodities, a truly...
...become akin to ombudsmen - guiding constituents through the bureaucratic maze, solving problems, listening to voters' concerns, urging them to take action. The by-product of this intimacy is that the sitting M.P. is able to catalog these concerns into a precise demographic and issues database; for instance, any decent M.P. in a marginal seat should be able to list the top five issues for 40-ish working mothers or know what self-funded retirees want. This data can then be channeled to the back-room party wizards. Although Labor rules in all states and territories, Liberal federal director Brian Loughnane...
...process of choosing seven people to spend their next three years with don’t always love every minute of the experience. But by giving them the opportunity to pick blockmates from the whole freshman class, the Harvard system allows first-years to preserve close friendships and ensure decent living arrangements in their Houses. The Harvard system may not be perfect, but, unlike our counterparts at Yale, we have the freedom to create the kind of House life we want...