Word: mikes
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...germans trekked west to surrender to Americans rather than to Russians, believing they would be treated humanely. Instead of torturing them, we offered them the Marshall Plan, a shining moment in U.S. history. I hate to see the honor of those valiant Americans squandered in CIA torture chambers. Mike Burch, Nashville
...Double and undercover agents fill out the movie's other main plots. A German-born English officer, Lieutenant Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender, of Hunger and Fish Tank), is sent by his OSS superior (Mike Myers in a low-key guest spot) to hook up in France with starlet Von Hammersmark, and thus get close enough to Hitler, Goering and Goebbels to kill them and end the war. (Two of the Reich's most beloved actresses, Zarah Leander and Olga Chekova, were later thought to be secret agents for the U.S.S.R.) Hicox and the actress rendezvous in a French...
...usually impervious armor. Some, including minority leader John Boehner, are demanding an investigation, while others, pointing to her 39% approval rating - about the level Newt Gingrich enjoyed when he was blowing up President Clinton's agenda during his first year as Speaker - suggest that in front of an open mike, she has become a liability to her party...
...just a very intelligent man to talk to. He was very literate, he had a good vocabulary and you could talk to him and he understood what you were talking about." -Mike Ansell, a neighbor (CNN.com...
...China. But if the U.S. suddenly put in orders for millions of masks, Mexico and China would be unlikely to export their supplies before making sure their own populations were fully protected. "HHS knows the problem exists and yet they won't tell the health-care industry," says Mike Bowen of Texas-based Prestige Ameritech, the largest and one of the last remaining American mask manufacturers. "If they would only admit the problem exists, American hospitals would buy American masks and the manufacturing infrastructure would return." (Read "Battling Swine Flu: The Lessons from SARS...