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...Like firemen across the city and country, he worked 24-hour shifts, much of it on the pile, the putrid 16-acre wasteland where the laws of time and space simply do not abide. "We'd be working in one place for a bit, and they'd blow the horn and tell us to run because another building might collapse on us, and then they'd bring us back to the same place two hours later," he recalls. "You'd be doing your work, and then all of a sudden you'd look up and see Robin Williams and then...
...response to terrorists must be to kill them before they kill us. We must accept acts that in the past would have been found repellent in a democracy. We must find the backbone to take on any nation that teaches hatred and exact a price for that behavior. EDWARD HORN Atlantic Beach...
...SOMALIA: The failed state in the Horn of Africa looks tailor-made for a hangout for al-Qaeda. The country has no central government to speak of. Like Afghanistan, it's divided into fiefdoms presided over by competing clan leaders and warlords whose temporary loyalties can readily be bought. Muslim by faith, most Somalis are impoverished nomads who move between temporary huts. And Somalia has a homegrown militant group called al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (Unity of Islam) that the U.S. says is linked to al-Qaeda. The group was once host to a few training camps near the Kenyan border...
...supporting character and decadent author Eli Cash (Owen Wilson) becomes a household name with the publication of his best-selling novel “Old Custer,” a fantastical piece of fiction that plays with the concept of Custer’s having actually survived Little Big Horn. Cash, or the “James Joyce of the West,” crests on his newfound celebrity to score drugs, female companionship and war paint...
...tossed-off, coming across as an amalgam of “Let’s Go To Bed” and “Why Can’t I Be You,” full of chiming guitars and keyboard samples that sound like they want to be horn sections. But this is supposed to be a retrospective disc, right...