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...Navy's flashy flight-exhibition team, have thrilled spectators since 1946. Their high-speed, tight-formation flying routines, however, can exact a dear price. Some two dozen Blue Angel pilots have died in air shows or training accidents. The latest casualty is Lieut. Commander Kevin Davis, whose F/A-18 Hornet clipped a stand of pine trees before crashing into a Beaufort, S.C., residential neighborhood. The cause of the crash is unknown, but as former Blue Angels pilots have noted, such aerial acrobatics leave no room for human or mechanical error. Davis...
...sleep" over collateral damage that included the death of several Lebanese infants, then subsequently declared that Israel had committed war crimes. The blunders demonstrated the uncomfortable reality that although he is a gifted intellectual, his political instincts have never been honed. Ignatieff ended his campaign by stirring up a hornet's nest with his support for a call to recognize Quebec as a "nation" within Canada, and spent the final two weeks avoiding major public appearances prior to the convention...
...Cars, which opens June 9, you voice the character of Doc Hudson, a mysterious 1951 Hudson Hornet and former racing champ who doesn't seem to be that popular. What's his problem? He's a solitary kind of car. Maybe his carburetor isn't working like it used...
...remembers the frustration he felt last March when he walked into the Emergency Operations Center at Fort Campbell and listened in on a battle occurring at that moment across the world: the early stages of Operation Anaconda. The soldiers of the division's 3rd Brigade had walked into a hornet's nest and clearly did not have the firepower they needed. By the end of the day, the division commander had ordered Jim and the rest of his battalion to pack their aircraft and head to Afghanistan. Ninety-six hours later, all his aircraft had been taken apart, loaded onto...
...Klein said, democracy "demands that people take charge of their lives and make informed decisions." I hope Americans make informed decisions in the next elections and hold our public officials accountable for what they say. We need to repair our image as a superpower and calm the global hornet's nest this Administration and congressional leadership have stirred up. Richard Zack New Providence, New Jersey, U.S. Power Politics Elliott would have us believe that resolving world conflicts is a simple choice between an American Big Brother and a power vacuum in which rogue nuclear states (he cites the threat...