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...crash. Steve Allen Lewis, his son by Myra, died at 5 in a swimming pool. His fourth wife, Jaren Pate, also died in a swimming pool, in 1982. His fifth wife, Shawn Stephens, died a few months into their marriage; it was ruled a methadone overdose, which doesn't explain her "bruised, bloodied corpse" police found in the bedroom of the Lewis's Nesbit, Miss., mansion. Or the comment Lewis supposedly made to Stevens' sister Denise. As she told the Detroit Free Press: "I said, 'What happened?', and Jerry said, 'Your sister's dead, and she was a bad girl...
...Flash, who can run to the other side of the world in less than a second, and Plastic Man, who turns himself into any shape he desires. Together they battle not only Luthor, but also Superman, now forced to due Luthor's bidding for reasons too silly to explain here. This results in the best moment of the series, right in the first volume, where Supes undergoes a fantastic beat-down at the hands of the ornery Batsy. But, as the series goes on, more and more secondary characters get piled on, reducing the Dark Knight to little more than...
...runs an iron dictatorship; the other has to wrestle with a real democracy. Which is as good an explanation as you'll find to explain why, even as the noise level on Iraq rose last week, the signals from the Bush White House quietly flickered from green to yellow. A senior Administration official informed a key lawmaker that Congress should not expect U.S. action before the November elections. Another pushed the timetable into 2003. "No decisions are going to be made on Iraq for the foreseeable future," this official told Time. "It slips until next year." And intimates...
...Those kinds of objections explain why the war party is looking for a silver-bullet strategy-a lucky first strike on Saddam, say, or a manufactured coup by Iraqi dissidents-that would forestall an old-fashioned deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops and tanks. But almost no one in uniform thinks such dream schemes will work. One defense official puts it this way: "There's nobody in the Joint Chiefs who doesn't want Saddam gone yesterday. But no matter how much you want to do the silver bullet strike, you need a Plan B. And all the Plan...
...little while later," says Springsteen, "I drove across the local bridge. The Trade Center sits right in the middle of it when you look toward New York." Having been spared any personal tragedy, Springsteen tells his where-were-you-when story sheepishly. His greatest hardship was having to explain the day to his kids. "I think it's become placed in their lives in the same way that the nuclear bomb was when I was a kid. It's the really dark, scary thing, and they're not sure where it can touch them. Can it touch them at school...