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Dean offers, to purloin a phrase, a choice, not an echo. His pugnacity in defense of his liberal instincts is obviously genuine. After eight years of careful Clintonian positioning, it's refreshing. Compared with Kerry's packaged, tested, hollow rants against "special interests," Dean's straight talk is invigorating. He isn't haunted, as Kerry is, by the specter of Vietnam. Even the famous Iowa scream had more authenticity and fire than Kerry's labored recitation "Bring it on." Unlike Kerry, Dean has held a serious executive office--balancing budgets, reforming health care, innovating on civil rights. Kerry's undistinguished...
...scheduled to open in New York on Feb. 16. Keller has another cookbook due out in the fall, based on dishes served at the original Bouchon. He is also marketing a line of Limoges porcelain by Raynaud that he helped design and a collection of silver hollow ware--egg cups, wine buckets--by Christofle, both destined for high-end retail stores. For dessert, he is simultaneously starting a $1.8 million renovation of the French Laundry and planning an inn on land opposite the restaurant. "This is quite a year for me," says Keller, shaking his head wistfully. "Everything has just...
...former members of Saddam's regime in Adhamiya. In July, Colgan led the platoon on midnight searches of a Muslim cemetery next to the Abu Hanifa mosque, where insurgents were believed to be storing weapons. Colgan instructed the soldiers to bang the lid of each crypt; if it sounded hollow, the troops hoisted the 250-lb. granite slab and looked inside. On its second graveyard hunt, on July 4, the platoon netted a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher and 31 RPGs. A later search turned up a stash of the explosive C4. Afterward, the platoon nicknamed itself the Tomb Raiders...
...Soldier Hollow in midway (435-654-2002), visitors are steadying their .22-cal. rifles and taking aim at targets after cross-country skiing the Olympic biathlon course. Try not to be distracted by Soldier Hollow's backdrop--11,750-ft. Mount Timpanogos. down in the salt lake valley, you'll find the fastest ice on earth at the Olympic Oval (801-963-7109), where 10 records were set, eight of which still stand. You can try setting your own with the help of a coach and rental skates on the 400-m oval...
...Bush Administration seems to be supporting the deal if only to pressure Israel, as Secretary of State Colin Powell met with the drafters despite complaints by Israel. What do you think? Is the plan worth U.S. support if only to restart the stalled dialogue, or is it just a hollow document that won't spur any new peaceful developments? Send us your thoughts...