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...have some real concerns with ethics and integrity as far as Colonel North is concerned." -- Desert Storm commander Norman Schwarzkopf...
...Iago and Cruella De Vil, hires a pack of hyenas as his goons: clever Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), giddy Banzai (Cheech Marin) and idiotic Ed (Jim Cummings), who says little but is happy to chew voraciously on his own leg. The hero's helpers, who save Simba in the desert and teach him their live-for-today philosophy, Hakuna matata -- Swahili for "What, me worry?" -- are Timon (Nathan Lane), a streetwitty meerkat, and the lumbering wart-hog Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella). They chew beetles...
...find balance between men and women or between formal authority and individual conscience," says Maxine Hanks, a fifth-generation Mormon whose book Women & Authority: Re-Emerging Mormon Feminism claims women exercised priesthood powers in the 19th century when church followers were struggling to establish themselves in the Utah desert. "Contemporary Mormon women should reclaim their lost authority," she says. For holding such views, however, Hanks and other women have been excommunicated...
Almost immediately, Eisenhower picked up the sounds of criticism. He noted in his diary that British columnists were sniping at him and talking up their own generals, especially the star of North Africa: Montgomery, victor over Germany's General Rommel, the Desert Fox. "They don't use the words initiative or boldness in talking of me," Eisenhower wrote. "It wearies me to be thought of as timid, when I've had to do things that were so risky as to be almost crazy...
...spans four nights and eight hours and portrays nothing less than the end of the world as we know it. King's horrors, as usual, are firmly rooted in the everyday. The opening scene sets the tone. At a government lab nestled in a quiet California desert community, a security guard gets a panicked alarm: the containment of a deadly experimental virus has been breached. Instead of triggering the security system, the guard races across the manicured lawns, grabs his wife and baby and bolts off in a car before the area can be quarantined...