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...years old and my parents went to bed two hours ago. I hunch over my dimly lit desk and squint as I pull tiny gun turrets from the sprues of a plastic-parts tree. My room smells of Testor's model glue. I will eventually get so delirious from inhaling the fumes and struggling to assemble this 1/700-scale model of the aircraft carrier Akagi that I will pass out at my desk...
Setting priorities and delivering bad news to friends is just a sliver of what Rove does as Bush's top political gun. It was Rove who shaped the agenda, message and strategy that got Bush--the least experienced presidential nominee of modern times--into the White House. Now it is Rove's job to keep him there through 2008. "My job," Rove told TIME last week, "is to pay attention to the things that affect his political future." That's why, in the first week of Bush's presidency, Rove was bringing political advisers from New Hampshire to the White...
...soft-spoken single guy who drives a pickup truck with a gun rack, Sullivan comes from a family of Greenville jewelers. A nonvet and nonjournalist, he got his start at Southern Partisan by writing about the Sons of Confederate Veterans as a member and officer. Sullivan is Christian, antiabortion and a supporter of small, decentralized government. His magazine is all those things and also a passionate defender of the Confederate flag. Sullivan says it's fair to call the publication right-wing with a Southern twist. But not racist...
...just referred to over and over again as “the daughter.” Throughout the first half of the novel, this visit, the image of Walter riding in on his buggy and the daughter’s habit of holding onto her father’s gun and staring lovingly at his paintings of birds are repeated over and over again. It is as though Jorge thinks that the reader doesn’t understand that these events all symbolize the daughter’s longing for her father. These types of repetition make the first half...
...there's a big push to keep riots civil. Check out the latest in crowd-control tech: beanbag guns, Spidey-style Webshots that launch Kevlar nets, PepperBall shooters and tasers that fire probes charged with a 50,000-volt shock. The heavy-duty stuff is yet to come: the U.S. military is developing a microwave gun whose beam feels like burning, and it's toying with sonic weapons that emit sound waves strong enough to knock you over or vibrate your internal organs to the point of nausea. By the way, Quiet Riot is still around; catch them touring...