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Paying homage to the oldies that they grew up listening to, Aisler’s Set have made a strikingly old sounding record. Yet the fantastic punkier songs make one wish that the band had attempted to bridge their two poles more effectively—we can dust off the oldies easily enough ourselves...
...estimated one-third of the city's 350,000 residents--including Korean conscripts and imperial army units--were killed instantly. Many thousands more would die from its radioactive poison in the coming years. The bomb turned glass to liquid, buildings to dust, and people to mere shadows etched on the ruins...
...owned by RCA, had no small interest in moving its expensive new color TVs, and Pan was a two-hour, $400,000 commercial for the glories of color. People gathered at the homes of neighbors who had "color" to watch. They were not disappointed. "Surely there must be fairy dust from coast to coast this morning," raved a critic...
...wealth of images is far preferable to the near blackout of Gulf War I. But seeing doesn't automatically equal knowing. Excitement, dust and dark often limited reporters' perspectives. "We seem to see a line of vehicles off to the left there," said CBS's John Roberts by videophone, on the move with the 1st Marine Division in southern Iraq. "Oh, sorry. It's a line of camels." Many important early operations, like special-forces missions, went on without media witnesses. And although watching Fox News's Rick Leventhal report while a Marine unit fired heavy artillery gave...
That sounded just right. ("I agree with that. I agree with that," was Gore's response.) But humility was lost in the anger, dust and blood of Sept. 11; it will be nearly impossible to recover when victory is won in Iraq. Hubris could easily masquerade as reality. We are incomparably strong and admirably free, the most benign superpower in history. But the truths inherent in that proposition could easily lead to a falsehood--that we are justified in remaking the world as we choose. Certainly the world seems ripe to be remade. "We had certain strategies and policies...