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...they fought to keep Saddam from destroying the 1,000 oil wells that are the country's financial future. Teams in humvees and low-flying helicopters rolled into dozens of towns in search of arms caches; riverine squads on inflatable boats cleared mines and other vessels from Umm Qasr harbor; and with help from the Marines, Army Rangers and some locals, a SEAL team freed Private Jessica Lynch from a Nasiriyah hospital...
...second season, The Wire (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.) moves its action to Baltimore's port, where Detective James McNulty (Dominic West) has been exiled to the harbor patrol for ticking off his bosses. The waterfront is an ideal setting for The Wire's murky morality--a place that is neither here nor there, the porous membrane between America and the Other, the teeming intake for legal and illegal markets. Its shipping containers, stacked for acres like so many Pez, feed a ravenous economy with cameras and vodka and hookers--this season's case starts when a group of young women...
...preparation for those choppy seas, the Crimson has joined with other local teams to practice sailing 420s on Boston Harbor. Training in these boats serves the dual purpose of acquainting the team with conditions and with the boats themselves as the 420s are the boats utilized at Nationals, but are not part of the FJs that make up much of the Crimson’s fleet...
...Owner John Constance, a two-term Sackets Harbor mayor and former-Marine, has a son-in-law, Major Pat Frank, with the 101st Airborne Division. Frank?s tent was one of the ones that was hit in March by grenades tossed by a fellow serviceman at Camp Pennsylvania, in Kuwait. Pat was returning from the showers when it happened. ?Its been such a strain on my poor daughter [Jennifer],? says Constance. ?It?s unfortunate he?s missing all this fun in our family, but the good thing is it?s keeping my daughter?s mind occupied...
...bred horse ever) to win racing?s Triple Crown, Jennifer will join her parents in the winner?s circle. ?I'll be absolutely thrilled,? she says, ?but I'll be borderline tears, because my husband's not there with me.? Win or lose, the 1,386 residents of Sackets Harbor will throw a shindig . After all, says Constance, ?Funny Cide is the most exciting thing to happen to the town since...