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...engage [the enemy] in order to end the entire business as quickly as possible." Subtitled Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, Hanson's latest book traces the evolution of this "ideology of brutal frontal assault." His case studies range from the Greeks' destruction of a Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) to the U.S. victory (in strictly military terms: the author acknowledges the political defeat) over the Viet Cong's Tet offensive...
...looks set to get even broader. New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg recently said he planned to pursue selling corporations more naming rights on areas in city parks. Could there be an “Amazon.com Central Park” in the near future? Could “Fleet Commons” be a reality someday...
...consider the politically protected Virginia-class submarine. The Navy wants more than $60 billion to build a fleet of 30 of these attack subs over the next 25 years. With warming U.S.-Russian relations--and the era of submarine battles 50 years in the past--the Navy is emphasizing the sub's intelligence-gathering potential and its ability, like surface ships and airplanes, to fire cruise missiles. Powerful lawmakers from the two sub-building states--Connecticut's Joseph Lieberman and Virginia's John Warner--are among the sub's champions, so there's a strong political push to produce...
...those more restrained days, the British press did not report on Margaret's private life. But Fleet Street turned against her all the same, complaining that she was rude, free spending and neglectful of royal duties. When she made a final lunge for unsuitable romance, the tabloids pounced. In 1973 she took up with Roddy Llewellyn, a landscape gardener 17 years her junior. The papers published a photograph of the two capering on Mustique. The charade of her marriage collapsed entirely, though she and Snowdon did not formally split until...
...most recent quarter - and now Eddington is shifting focus back to coach. Although he's cutting routes even as O'Leary is buying new planes, he hopes B.A. can take a bit back from the discounters by selling cheap tickets over the Internet and simplifying its short-haul fleet to get more out of each aircraft. He's still not charging for peanuts, though...