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Acting in a film and flying a plane are "the kind of things you dream about doing when you're a kid," says DAVID ELLISON, who can check both off his list at age 23. Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, plays a fighter pilot in Flyboys, the new film about World War I flying aces. Although it's his first role, Ellison was better prepared than co-stars James Franco and Jean Reno in at least one respect--he's been a competitive stunt pilot since age 13. And, oh yes, it didn't hurt that the Ellisons...
...Posada, a self-styled freedom fighter, has been involved in anti-Castro activities for decades. In the early 1960s, he worked with the CIA in an attempt to overthrow Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion and in 2000 was arrested in Panama in an alleged plot to assassinate the Cuban president, according to court documents filed in the Fifth District Court in El Paso, where he is being held in detention. The charges in the assassination attempt were later dropped, but Posada was charged with national security and counterfeiting crimes and received a sentence of eight years in prison...
...CLAIM: Fighter jets within range of the hijacked planes must have been under orders to stand down, since none from the 28 Air Force bases in the area was scrambled...
This is where the White House does not want Democrats to get traction. If Bush's Iraq policies are a tough sell with voters, at least he has enjoyed credibility as a terrorism fighter overall. During the summer, Republican consultants watching focus groups of married women with children, a sector that strongly supported Bush's re-election, found that the mothers often asked questions about Iraq like "Does this go on forever?" But if the women were reminded of Iraq in the context of a war on terrorism--say, by being shown a video of a plane flying into...
...Casta?o was a swift, violent man, built like a scrappy welterweight fighter, and you'd be a fool to take him straight on. I met him once, in 2000, and it was the strangest assignment I've ever done. Not dangerous, as I had expected, but strange...