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"No one has shown me what a commissioner can do that a chief can't do," Walsh ways. "All the title will do is provide the illusion of having a more capable figurehead--and the people will believe it. But the officers won't. They will want to answer to...
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney warned, at the end of the first week of battle, that "a military operation of this intensity and complexity cannot be scored every evening like a college track meet or a basketball tournament." Yet the Pentagon went on releasing, and the media went on using, comparative...
Still, I brood about whether I am prepared for the horrors of what will come next, either the carnage of a ground war or the full revelation of civilian casualties within Iraq and Kuwait. Despite my informed consent as a citizen, a wave of queasiness hit me with the first...
Katharine Hepburn once remarked that the secret to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' success was that he gave her class while she gave him sex appeal. Hepburn's equation helps explain the long and awkward tango between Hollywood and Washington. To Washington, Hollywood offered glamour; to Hollywood, Washington provided substance...
/ Besieged as they are, these structures are coming to symbolize the failure of Soviet reform. Latvians and Lithuanians, along with appalled observers inside and outside the U.S.S.R., are convinced that the crisis between Moscow and the republics is not over so long as troops range the cities and independence-minded...