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...Washington would lie empty. But an American official who has been privately doubtful of the Administration's commitment to the peace process now echoes this view. "I'm convinced the President will lay his own political life on the line for it," says this official. "When I do the gut check...
...While most of the economy sputtered last year, the RV industry was catapulted out of a downturn and into its second best year since the Iran oil crisis pummeled the business in 1979. The industry tends to be one of the first to recover from a recession; after a gut-punching 2001, factory-to-dealer deliveries jumped 21% last year to 311,000 units, and sales approached $11 billion. Rentals were up by a third. "The demographics are pretty locked in for the next 25 to 30 years," says Hertzke. "Our whole industry is going to do extremely well...
...soon as the DUSTOFFS hit the ground, the waiting company brought out Maita, Talraas and a paratrooper who had been shot in the right kidney. But that wasn't Barbe's only surprise that morning. He knew these guys; this was his old brigade. The soldier with the gut wound was a friend of his, and was rapidly losing consciousness...
...Surgeon Major Mark Harris picks up the story: "It's a miracle that the soldier with the gut wound got to the hospital alive. If the medic hadn't arrived when he did, the guy would have perished within minutes...
Kenyon: So Summers serves, and it’s like a punch to the gut. Not literally—I was never physically hit with the ball—but they came in hard, and I struggled futilely to keep from returning long...