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...Since Yuri Gagarin first blasted into the heavens in 1961, manned space flight has been a strictly government-run affair. That ended on June 21 when MIKE MELVILL flew to an altitude of 100.1 km on SpaceShipOne, a private rocket-powered plane funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. After gliding safely to earth, Melvill was more exultant than eloquent. He climbed atop the dart-shaped craft and whooped, "Yeeee-haaah...
...pilot dipped the plane's wings, and Nancy called out, "Quick, get Ron and Patti to take a look." They gazed silently out the windows. The tiny cluster of buildings on a land-sea of vivid green summer corn quickly slid beyond view. "A lot of corn," said Nancy. Mike Deaver, who had served Reagan so loyally, wore the cuff links that he had given Reagan on his 75th birthday. Nancy had recently returned them. Deaver wore them for the first time on this flight. "I don't think I will wear them again," he said quietly...
Davey (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is a small-time drug dealer and a big-time womanizer but also a cute, cheeky, likable guy, working the fringes of the London demimonde. One night, for no reason that director Mike Hodges and writer Trevor Preston care to make clear, a car dealer (a particularly malevolent Malcolm McDowell) and two henchmen abduct and brutally rape him. Davey commits suicide, and his terminally taciturn brother Will (Clive Owen, the star of Hodges' Croupier) returns to the criminal life from a rough rural retirement to avenge the kid's death...
...that time. The rest was spent tending to the band's alter egos. Horovitz released weird electronic music under the name BS 2000. Diamond recorded satirical country tunes--Don't Let the Air out My Tires, On Your Way Up Again (The Fowl Song)--under the name Country Mike. Yauch, who directs many of the Beasties' videos as imaginary Swiss auteur Nathanial Hornblower, oversaw the Beastie Boys DVD Video Anthology for the Criterion Collection...
...wrong. We Americans should remain loyal to our military, including our Commander in Chief and those directly in charge of the troops in Iraq. If we rally around our military and its leaders when the going gets tough, they will make us proud, as they always have. MIKE GALLAGHER Houston...