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...Fallon may be widely respected, but within military circles, his selection is controversial. The top Central Command job has always gone to an Army or Marine general for the simple reason that their ground forces would typically bear the brunt of any war in the theater. A bombadier-navigator in Vietnam, Fallon, 62, has no operational experience commanding ground troops or battling the kind of insurgency that grips Iraq or is growing in Afghanistan. "To put in a naval aviator without any command combat experience is like putting a baseball coach in to run the offense in the Super Bowl...
...most dramatic stories involved a man trapped in a fire in the cab of a huge construction crane 200 feet above the ground. They brought in a helicopter, and a guy dangled at the end of hooks and saved him. The next day the first thing I said [to the crane operator] was, "It must have been so harrowing." The man said, "You know, I never thought it was such a big deal." It ended right there...
...coming year can be complete without focusing on the story that will preoccupy a great many of us, the 2008 presidential campaign. In this issue, correspondent Perry Bacon Jr. profiles John Edwards, who declared his candidacy in New Orleans last week. Perry is our point person on the ground in the early decision-making states, Iowa, New Hampshire and now Nevada, and in the coming months he will be reporting on what candidates are up to in those key states...
...dismal science reigns supreme among undergraduates at Harvard, and it is discussed almost endlessly. With roughly 750 students, economics—that fertile training ground for future i-bankers, equity analysts and portfolio managers—is the single most popular concentration at Harvard. And Harvard’s economics department is one of the best in the world...
...records. A Boeing MD-82 operated by Lion Air crashed in Solo in 2004, killing 25 of the 141 people on board, and a Mandala Airlines Boeing 737 crashed in Medan, Indonesia's third-largest city, in September 2005, killing all 102 on board and 47 residents on the ground. In 2006 there were at least 15 aircraft accidents in Indonesia, resulting in 14 fatalities. One foreign resident tells of an Adam Air flight last year from Jakarta to Lombok which left with his luggage but not him. "That's how terrorists blow up planes," he notes, asking...