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...Taiwan politics. Newspapers reported that military sources leaked the results on purpose. The simulation also looked to be stacked in China's favor: for a start, it didn't factor in likely U.S. involvement. Why would Taiwan's military profess to be so vulnerable? Possibly because they are eager to buy expensive weapons from the U.S., such as diesel-electric subs and Patriot-3 antimissile systems?and a crushing defeat at the hands of a virtual People's Liberation Army makes a compelling case for such an expense. Chen is asking the legislature to take early action on $18 billion...
...eager as the Bush team may have been to point out Kerry's faults, they may have to be satisfied doing more of their dissing in private. According to the Bush playbook, the phone call marked the end of an era in the re-election campaign and what they hope is the beginning of a new one. In the spring and earlier this summer, most of the ads and energy of Bush's aides had been devoted to defining Kerry negatively. Those attacks will continue, Bush sources say, but they will take a backseat to a new, more positive message...
...biggest impediment on the way to swimming history may well be his own teammates, many of them Olympic medalists and world-record holders. And then there are the Australians, with a younger and deeper men's team that would dearly love to grind the Americans into chum. They are eager to write the coda to their 4 x 100-m medley-relay defeat in Sydney, where U.S. swimmer Gary Hall Jr. had claimed that the Americans would "smash [the Australians] like guitars." The Aussies won the next two relays, on the back of Thorpe, and mockingly played air guitar...
...surpassing American oddity that a proper Bostonian who seems so profoundly uncomfortable with the rude ceremonies of the public square can transform himself into a sleek political warrior, eager for the havoc of pitched battle. But I wonder how many of these visits to the phone booth are matters of desperation and how many are matters of strategy...
This is not merely a matter of fresh-faced beauty. It has more to do with the unmediated openness of her work. Playing a 17-year-old, she never imparts the slightest hint of calculation in her reactions. She is pure instinct--at once, for example, eager for boys yet wary of them--full of flashing anger, impatient for adventure, sexual and otherwise, yet also full of doubts, which assail her when she thinks no one is looking. This isn't acting, it's behaving. And it is behaving with a point. Without quite knowing it herself, this child-woman...