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...pressure was also intense. Just the week before, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was in the region pressing the officers about why this was taking so long. Sitting in front of walls lined with maps and flat video screens, Rumsfeld marveled at the elusiveness of the quarry. "I'm dumbfounded when I think about it," he told Army Major General Raymond Odierno, commander of the 4th Infantry. "The chances of us using that kind of money to find somebody--to figure out how to invest some time and develop a network and produce the information that would do it--I mean...
...Night? was Woolrich?s prime mixture of the paranoid and the paranormal - a cocktail that rarely fizzes in this flat adaptation. You will make do with minor pleasures: Robinson?s walking-dead pallor as Triton (who calls himself ?a zombie in reverse?); Russell?s fragile beauty (she would drink herself to death at 36); the movie?s last words, that ?there are things on earth still hidden from us. Secret things, dark and mysterious.? Like the resolution of a Woolrich plot...
...sofa, throws on a woolen overcoat and orders everyone, including the reporter, to move out. The men pile into three cars and tear off in different directions. For more than an hour, they cruise near the launch site until all looks clear. Then a small team walks into a flat field to aim a rack of homemade launching tubes toward the lights of the Baghdad airport, home to U.S. chopper squadrons, supply units and the CIA-led Iraq Survey Group, less than two miles away. The insurgents load three air-to-air rockets they have modified to launch from...
DIED. JEFF BROWN, 77, author of the children's-book series Flat Stanley; of a heart attack; in New York City. Inspired by a bedtime conversation he had with his two sons, the books tell of a boy named Stanley who is squashed flat by a falling bulletin board and has adventures like visiting his friends by traveling in an envelope...
...book--ever--even if you think you're just going to the grocery store to pick up a carton of milk or you're driving. I'm not suggesting that people should read while they're driving, but if you're stuck in a traffic jam or get a flat tire and you're waiting for someone to come and help you, there are all kinds of moments in the day that are reading moments. I actually prefer to take the bus to work rather than the subway because it's a much more pleasant experience. People...