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...When Cunningham, a former Navy fighter pilot ace in Vietnam, refused to be hospitalized, Dr. Smith "arranged for a patient contract not to act on his [suicidal thoughts] and he brought in a support group of other patients and another ace Navy pilot who had a history of depression and who provided support and monitoring." Cunningham also received medication...
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INITIATED. Into the death of PAT TILLMAN, Arizona Cardinals defensive back who quit football to join the Army after 9/11 and was killed in Afghanistan in April 2004, after fellow Rangers mistook him for a Taliban fighter; by the Defense Department's inspector general; in Washington. The Army originally blamed enemy fire for Tillman's death. Tillman's family has criticized three previous Army investigations as incomplete...
...also wrote Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen--began publishing an almost unbearably dark series of comic books set in a dismal, dystopic future Britain ruled by an oppressive Orwellian government. V for Vendetta starred, instead of a superhero, a bitter, brilliant, at least half-insane resistance fighter known only as V, whose face was permanently hidden behind a grinning mask that, if you're English, you recognize as the face of Guy Fawkes. (Who--again, if you're English--you know as the proto-terrorist who tried and failed to blow up Parliament...
...officials in creative ways, stab people with big shiny knives and blow up buildings. Early in the comics he rescued a woman named Evey from government thugs, and she became his sidekick; later on he tortured Evey, to "help" her see his point of view. V was a freedom fighter, no question, but Moore never let you forget that he was also a terrorist, and as such he was both hero and villain. That was the sick, sad genius of the comic book: the government had taken everything from V, even his goodness...
...John Howard is in a good place. Fit, busy, master of his own game. Ever watchful, in person he's cheerful, attentive and sincere. Blessed with a strong constitution, Howard has not lost his hunger. The political street-fighter who has dispatched Labor's Paul Keating, Kim Beazley (twice), Mark Latham and may yet face off next year against Beazley 2.0, cites one homely ingredient for success - never miss a meal. "It doesn't matter who you are," he says, "you've got time for lunch." The looming anniversary appears to have put the P.M. in a relaxed mood...