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...friends say, has become a more urgent mission for the 64-year-old Vice President than bolstering his own sagging public image. The President's poll ratings remain at a five-year low, and two of the big reasons are a discouraging war for which Cheney served as head hawk, and the indictment of Cheney's chief of staff in an investigation that sprang from a heavy-handed White House effort to discredit an annoying critic. The prosecutor's narrative makes tantalizing reference to one or more conversations Cheney had about the matter with the aide, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby...
...Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in the town of Ginowan, Okinawa, to a less populated part of the island chain. The next day, the U.S. Navy announced that Japan had dropped a long-standing objection and agreed to let the Navy replace its 44-year-old, diesel-powered Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, now stationed at Yokosuka, with a newer, nuclear-powered one. Then came the release of a report on the alliance that outlined the most sweeping revisions to U.S. base deployments and the most far-reaching strategic understandings between the two countries in more than a decade. The report...
...pledge from Berger that will alter Kaja's life completely. This consigns her, at age 9, to a new life amid the ruins of postwar Cologne and a tribe of incomprehensible strangers. "I felt like a creature cut off from everything," she says, "a marmot dropped by a white hawk in the middle of the desert." Her struggle over the next years to put down roots is told with painful simplicity. Torn from the comforts of the yurt, Kaja endures "the feeling of suffocation and the fear that the roof is falling in on my head. Why did these people...
...many singers have imitated him that it's hard to realize how weird Bob Dylan sounded on first hearing--when the gods of show biz must have wondered, Who let him in? A slight figure with voluptuous lips and a hawk's hooded eyes, he hid behind his guitar and his neck-brace harmonica and emitted those torturous barnyard vowel sounds. Yet almost immediately, people got it. The imagery was so rich and cascading, the urgency of his outrage so compelling and contagious that listeners pretty quickly adjusted their long-held definition of what a folk song...
...last time I was in an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter, it was screaming over the Iraqi desert, doors open, hot air blowing in like a blast furnace. That was in 2003, when I was an embedded reporter with an Air Force combat rescue unit. Today, as we tear across the woodlands of central Mississippi, I'm once again surrounded by guys in uniform whose mission is the same: to rescue people in need. But this time we are in my own country. The scene looks like a war zone, houses blown to splinters, cars abandoned on the roads, crowds...