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...people of New Orleans are surely not thinking about wind vortices, the coriolis effect or the dampness of the troposphere as they hunker down during hurricane Katrina this morning. They?re mostly thinking about the savage rains and 140 mph winds that have driven them from their homes. But it?s that meteorological arcana that?s made such a mess of the bayou, and to hear a lot of people tell it, we have only ourselves-and our global-warming ways-to blame...
...suspect there is more bad news to come in Iraq and quite possibly on the domestic economy. They are open to the idea of replacing Bush, but not with a politician who shares the President's most basic flaw--a cynical underappreciation of the public's ability to sacrifice, hunker down and directly confront what has suddenly become a very difficult world...
Soon he's off to pursue the great coho salmon in Newfoundland, cross the Rockies in a special Union Pacific train and jet across the Atlantic to hunker down on the banks of England's Test River, where Bush was told a fellow named William Shakespeare fished for trout. "Ah, the Bard and me along the Test," he spoofs. "They say that you are not a man until you have been to the Great Wall and fished the Test. I've been to the Great Wall...
Long celebrated by satirist David Williamson as a makeover metropolis consumed with change (Emerald City, Up for Grabs), Sydney also harbors a pluckier spirit; its citizens can hunker down, when fired by a sense of injustice, and fight. That's the message of two new plays strutting the Sydney stage, both inspired by recent public events. 'When people get together," says Harbour's retired wharfie Sandy (Peter Carroll), 'they can give each other the courage to dance through the flames...
...with the local population, stopping to drink coffee and share a smoke, listening for that key bit of gossip about where the local party chieftain is hiding. But because the Iraqi opposition is going after the "onesies and twosies," says a Pentagon official, U.S. troops will be tempted to hunker down and stay in large groups, protected by vehicles and the full battle rattle of helmets and body armor. You can't collect intelligence that...