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...hour news took advantage of technology and access but often hurriedly picked up unconfirmable reports, albeit with caveats. "It's a hazard of the electronic-journalism game," says msnbc president Erik Sorenson. "My staff is so sick of me saying the word attribution." There is always the fog of war, but like smog trapped by a heat inversion, it was compounded by hot air, as anchors vamped to fill time and pushed guests to speculate. If anything, the fog grew thicker as the bombing slowed. The allies killed Saddam - or did they? - and troops found chemical weapons that later, diabolically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worth a Thousand Words | 4/16/2003 | See Source »

...inflict serious damage on us." It's also a reflection of the way weapons systems have advanced faster than recognition capabilities. A target can be hit with precision long before it can be identified. The accuracy and lethality of modern U.S. weapons systems are also factors. So is the fog of war: fear, sleeplessness and confusion--constants in any war--can cause human beings to make mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fratricide: Misfiring in the Fog | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

When the subject of all the anguish, “her,” woke and detached herself from a metaphorical mattress placed at the back of the stage, her high feminine voice appropriately sliced through the fog of angst created by her unworthy lover...

Author: By Julie S. Greenberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: English Operas Make Classic Art Modern | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

Although the battlefield produced the usual fog of conflicting reports, at least one thing was made clear with the first salvo: the principal target of Gulf War II is not the Iraqi military but Saddam himself. Inside the U.S. war rooms, quickly decapitating the Iraqi regime is seen as critical to bringing about the destruction of the enemy. "We want to turn the Iraqi military into a chicken with its head cut off," a senior Navy official says. Saddam "might be able to strike back, but it will be uncoordinated and ultimately fruitless." Defense sources say that U.S. forces will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awestruck | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

Time that the visiting team’s goaltender remained on the field after play was suspended because the fog was too thick to see that the field had been vacated...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Minutes! | 3/13/2003 | See Source »

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