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...February, a website based in Pakistan put up a photo montage depicting Pantano's severed head. The FBI and local police were called in, and Pantano turned his pleasant modern house into a small armed camp. Guns appeared from various bags and trunks. A bag of flak jackets lay by the couch, and Pantano took to wearing a sidearm under his Thomas Pink shirt. It was as close to the front lines as Lieut. Pantano is likely to get in the foreseeable future. This summer Easy Company will head back to Iraq. Pantano will probably remain at home, fighting...
...about Election 2004 is how much of it was fought against the media. Throughout the campaign, Democrats complained about an unholy alliance of Fox News, Matt Drudge, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Rush Limbaugh et al., who former contender Al Gore charged constituted a G.O.P. "fifth column" within the press. The flak came from both sides. During their last debate, President Bush chided John Kerry, "I'm not so sure it's credible to quote leading news organizations," nodding toward moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS. It was a not-so-subtle allusion to the bungled 60 Minutes story about Bush's National...
...Harvard Independent, a.k.a. My Big Fat Obnoxious Newspaper, asks the tough questions in a Nov. 4 interview with Harvard Republican Club flak Lauren Truesdell...
...read Charlotte Simmons without picking nits. There was a time when Wolfe was a pioneer, reporting back to straight America from the exotic island of radical youth culture in books like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, but nowadays American culture and youth culture are basically the same thing, and it's Wolfe who looks a little behind the times. He leans heavily on catchphrases from such movies as Swingers ("You're money, baby") to give his dialogue a contemporary vibe. There are missteps: What self- respecting black hoopster would...
After Halpern voiced concerns with the clubs in a Crimson story published after he had graduated Harvard, he got flak from club-mates...