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...ideal subject for a 30-second campaign spot. But the event was too contrived, Bush's swagger too macho and his message way too premature. As U.S. soldiers continued to die in Iraq over the summer and fall, the President's perfect photo-op turned into perfect fodder for his opponents. When footage of Bush on the carrier did turn up in a TV ad, it was used by a Democrat to attack the President's handling of Iraq...
...units that are intimately familiar with their areas and can plan and attack below the radar of local security forces. The pattern, says Rand Corporation terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman, "is to send a handful of professional terrorists to make contact with existing local terrorist groups, who provide the cannon fodder--that is, the suicide bombers...
...events after that are in dispute. The syndicated news show Extra reported two scenarios, both of which make for titillating TV-movie fodder. The Jackson version: that he showered the family with love and money and the mother went to the authorities only when he stopped sending her checks. The accuser's side: that Jackson had not only abused the boy but had also kept the family imprisoned at Neverland--had effectively kidnapped them...
There's nothing Broadway loves better than a juicy backstage drama. And Taboo - the musical about '80s rock star Boy George, with music by the grownup Boy, George O?Dowd, and produced by talk-show diva Rosie O'Donnell - offered plenty of fodder. There were cancelled performances, reports of backstage fights, a star who walked out of a rehearsal, a director nearly fired. All that and a producer shuttling between the theater and a Manhattan courthouse, where she was involved in a lawsuit with the former publisher of her defunct magazine, Rosie...
...magical fodder for my imagination. Did the cars whisper thanks to him the next time he listened? I marveled at what he could do, especially since no one in my immediate family was blessed with anything near his handiness...