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...Iraq came into his sights, Rumsfeld pressed Franks to shrink the invasion force, speed the drive to Baghdad and forget about the more traditional, mile-by-bloody-mile invasion tactics that meant stopping at every step to consolidate the coalition's gains. Rumsfeld sold the war in a series of almost daily Pentagon briefings that centered not on the risks of besieging Baghdad but on the risks of not doing so. "We just suffered 3,000 dead in Sept. 11," he mused during a television interview in early February. "If the U.S. were to experience a Sept. 11 with...
...they encounter nothing. So now the convoy is heading back to base, a mile away. The platoon rolls into Adhamiya's main marketplace. The atmosphere is festive. Patrons of the teahouses and restaurants overflow onto the one-lane street. Traffic is running in both directions, and the convoy slows to a crawl. Just across Imam Street, the district's main thoroughfare, sits the Abu Hanifa mosque, where Saddam Hussein was last seen in public before his arrest by U.S. forces. A large crowd of Iraqis mills outside it. Private First Class Jim Beverly, 19, and Private Orion Jenks, 22, stand...
...drivers along 270 these days are also playing the odds. Franklin County police closed a four-mile stretch of the highway Saturday night to take measurements of the area, seeing how long it takes to drive from one point to another. The ATF assisted with laser sights. So far, police have made no arrests. An FBI profiler is working 14-hour days trying to pin down a suspect or suspects; police brought in the agent whose psychological sketch helped capture Thomas Lee Dillon, who pleaded guilty a decade ago to five sniper killings in southeastern Ohio. Franklin County's civilians...
...included Hanks among the actors "condemned to deliver endless variations on the same performance." But what about Road to Perdition, The Green Mile and Cast Away, all starring Hanks and all with very diverse characters and plot lines. Frances Moore Gresham...
...goal is to run a four-minute mile before graduation,” he says. “Afterwards, I’ll probably return to England, and maybe take some time off to work one-on-one with a coach and really dedicate myself to running...