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...gushed about his poise under enemy fire. They tell stories of his rescuing a Green Beret from drowning, killing a Viet Cong sniper, and saving 42 Vietnamese civilians from starvation. To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway they claim that in combat Kerry exemplified ?grace under pressure.? But PCF-44 Gunner?s Mate Stephen M. Gardner-in a long telephone interview from his home in Clover, South Carolina-has a starkly different memory. ?Kerry was chickenshit,? he insists. ?Whenever a firefight started he always pulled up stakes and got the hell out of Dodge...
With Kerry emerging as the Democratic nominee, speculation now centers on who he will choose as his running mate...
...like Brash: "He's just trying to grab votes." But she thinks of herself as "New Zealander first, Maori second. Three-quarters of my extended family are Pakeha. Whether we're black, green, yellow or blue, we're all equal. At the end of the day I say, Kiwis, mate...
...probably brighter than his present, he doesn't want to sully the white suit. He may also be pulling his punches because he wants to be Vice President. That would be foolish: his prospects aren't as obvious as most citizen pundits think. Kerry will surely want a running mate eager to eviscerate the opposition, particularly in the debate against Vice President Cheney (or, failing that, a Vice President who will bring his home state along--and Dick Gephardt has a better chance of doing both than Edwards). Edwards' fluffy passivity is not a very good audition...
Still, on tour now with Slug—his better-known label mate and friend—Eyedea’s iconoclastic style may be his ticket to success, about which he is anything but indifferent. “I want everybody’s fans,” he admits. “I want every single person who listens to music to like me. I can’t do anything beyond making my record and playing as many shows as possible...