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...History Channel's Ice Road Truckers (about long-haul drivers in the Arctic), Ax Men (loggers in Oregon) and truTV's Black Gold (oil riggers in Texas), debuting in June. Dirty Jobs profiles salvage workers, plumbers and cattle inseminators, while Tougher in Alaska lionizes linemen, miners and other Last Frontiersmen who probably make your job look like cutting out paper dolls...
...wonder whether the Iraqis can rule themselves. But remember, the British may have had the same question about American colonists. The British probably doubted that American farmers and frontiersmen could ever govern themselves. The first step is never easy, but freedom has to start somewhere. Phil Gonzalez Houston...
...occupying their country. Let's leave Iraq before it becomes a quagmire for us. Isabelle Chang Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, U.S. We may wonder whether the Iraqis can rule themselves. But remember, the British may have had the same question about American colonists. The British probably doubted that American farmers and frontiersmen could ever govern themselves. The first step is never easy, but freedom has to start somewhere. Phil Gonzalez Houston Your cover photograph of private First Class Christopher Lujan put a haunting, human face on the war in Iraq. Lujan, with his innocent face, seemed out of place in the uniform...
...chairman and CEO of Nike has helped turn them into household names ... [Knight] is the master of the mantra of the age ('Just Do It') and the proprietor of Nike's unmistakable swoosh, the icon that has turned the lowly sneaker into winged sandals ... Knight's stars are frontiersmen, exponents of an in-your-face brand of American optimism. And thus sports, as Knight has asserted, are 'the culture of the U.S.' By exporting the culture he has conquered the world for America. Knight, however, does not believe empires last forever ... The pursuit of cheap labor, for example, can redound...
Like The Laughing Cavalier, Trumble's book leaves you with a heightened awareness of the smile's subliminal power. As you read this, buses around Sydney are advertising cider with a sepia photo of grave-faced frontiersmen: they saved their smiles for happy hour; while emails zip around cyberspace with the smiley emoticon of colon-dash-parenthesis. "The smile, meanwhile, is getting broader, wider, fiercer," writes Trumble. And, as his book attests, more subversive than ever...