Word: deserter
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...Southern California, fall is the time of maximum danger. That's when hot, dry winds--the infamous Santa Anas--barrel out of the desert, driving small blazes (set in this case by a lost hunter and suspected arsonists) to savage frenzy. Making matters worse this time was the one-two punch of a multiyear drought (which weakened millions of trees) and a massive bark-beetle infestation (which killed off many of them). The Federal Government had just denied the state's request for more funding to remove dead trees when the fires hit. In a matter of days...
...captain in 1980, Boykin vainly tried to help rescue the 53 U.S. hostages held by Iran, a secret mission that ended in flames at Desert One, killing eight U.S. servicemen. Three years later, as a major, he helped invade Grenada. In 1992, as a colonel, he led the manhunt in Colombia for drug lord Pablo Escobar. The next year he advised Attorney General Janet Reno on what kind of gas to use to end the Federal Government's standoff with a religious group in Waco, Texas. But the experience that perhaps marked him most came six months later, in October...
...This economy will not improve until corporate America quits sending jobs offshore to boost their profit margins. If American corporations continue to desert American workers by sending jobs to India and Asia, they will have no one left to purchase their products. Wake up, corporate America! J. Calandre Clarkston, Mich...
...Jewish immigrants, has sharp elbows and broad experience in government. He held Cabinet jobs both under Thatcher and her successor, John Major. A quick-witted barrister with an excellent memory, he can give as good as he gets from Blair in the Commons. After six years in the desert, the Tories are working on some voter-friendly policies to go with their thirst for power. But historically, a change in leadership doesn't do much for a party's fortunes. As the party of older, wealthier, town-and-village Britain, the Tories badly need to broaden their appeal. Howard, with...
...This is a real Eastern Western: grizzled heroes enacting blood feuds in a gloriously forlorn landscape?the Taklimakan Desert?where the men ride camels as well as horses. Our outlaw hero has a familiar cohort of misfits: sassy kid, young woman, saintly monk and an old man with one last battle in him. I don't know if you can drawl in Mandarin, but Jiang Wen is sure-as-shootin' John Wayne, the gruff leader who tells his supporting-actor pals, "I don't want to turn your wives into widows," and rides off alone. (Of course they follow...