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...Wolfe, this stomp across the sea initiated the widespread suppression of manliness. "We have the example of the elite young men dodging the draft," Wolfe observes. The efforts of America's top warriors went into avoiding combat rather than embracing it. These men and their apologists had to destroy the ideal of the male fighter to justify saving their own skin. Manliness never disappeared, but popular culture stopped celebrating it, says the author of A Man in Full. Warrior images--the army sergeant, the astronaut--became "feminized" as women joined the ranks. And all the while, the male ego percolated...
Browder discovered that the off-therapy period allows the blood cells that feed tumors to regenerate and continue to nourish the very cancer cells that chemotherapy seeks to destroy...
...Family, Dyachenko and Yumashev, are actively involved in his election campaign. But clouds seem to be thickening over the head of Berezovsky, the most unpopular and pugnacious of the so-called oligarchs. A belief is growing among Russia's political and business elite that Putin wants to destroy Berezovsky's political power. There is less agreement about Putin's motives: Is this the start of a campaign against oligarchs or simply a piece of self-promotion...
...dealings with opposition-minded political heavyweights. Finally, expect him to continue his rock-hard line on Chechnya. The breakaway republic's warlords do not just want independence, he believes. They want to demolish the Russian Federation. Putin speaks of direct rule over the republic and threatens to "destroy" anyone who takes up arms against Russian rule...
...Meanwhile, Maxim, its circulation more than 1.6 million, is the undisputed frat-house president, and it's doubtful anyone can challenge it without embracing the mammarian flat-out. "When Mark and I were at Maxim," says erstwhile Details executive editor Bill Shapiro, "our whole mission in life was to destroy Details, to eat Details for lunch." Mission accomplished, guys...