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...members of the U.S. senate, Republican and Democrat alike, took to the floor last Thursday demanding that the Federal Government spend more money. It was a stirring spectacle, but not for Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, chairman of the Budget Committee, who opposed each measure with the wry frustration of a man attempting to juggle Jell-O. Norm Coleman, Republican of Minnesota, wanted to restore block grants for cities. "I could tell you story after story," he said about the glorious effects of federal dough. "If we start funding all the stories," Gregg responded, "we're going...
...Guardsman, says he was standing in the gun turret of his Humvee near Mosul a few mornings before, thinking about the Philadelphia cheesesteak he would have for lunch, when a roadside bomb exploded in front of his vehicle. The massive blast ripped through the Humvee, throwing Chilles to the floor. "It was like a plank hit me across the back," he says. The shrapnel tore two holes in his lower back and ripped through his abdomen, narrowly missing his vital organs - a "miracle shot," says Chilles. Two years have passed since U.S.-led coalition forces stormed into Iraq and ousted...
...longtime spin doctor in chief. As Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy, Hughes is taking on the difficult task of selling the idea of the U.S. to the Muslim world. But the mere fact that Hughes and Rice will work just steps apart on the State Department's storied seventh floor will make that agency a newly formidable counterweight in policy debates. Meanwhile, the other burr in Powell's saddle, the Pentagon, is having at least as much trouble retaining its ideologues as retaining its infantry. The two top aides to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--Wolfowitz and policy chief Douglas Feith...
...electrified, car and money and baseball crazy, with subways rumbling in its bowels and skyscrapers sprouting from its scalp. Kelly's hero, a good-natured Irishman named Michael Briody, is busy riveting together the skeleton of the Empire State Building, which at the peak of construction grew by a floor a day. Kelly devotes some great kinetic prose to his labors: "Briody steadied his legs and back and torso and arms and clenched his jaw against the rattle of the pneumatic gun. His muscles were fluid one second with movement, static the next to drive the rivet home, a contracting...
...Inside the troops find children and three women, one of them elderly, cowering on the floor. The Iraqi forces search the apartment and find three men. They turn up Tamimi's identification papers, but not the target himself. After cuffing the adults-including the women-with plastic ties, the Iraqi commander grills them about Tamimi, but gets nowhere. Then an Iraqi officer begins chatting with the children; before long one of them reveals that Tamimi had been in the apartment moments before the troops rushed in. "He's still here," the officer tells the Americans. Soon a Green Beret...