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...miles out of firing range. They're doubly useless when you can't get parts for them. Like so much of the isolated, rural West, Montana is inordinately dependent on UPS and FedEx for supplies, but suddenly such services were grounded. The lack of fresh seafood was a minor annoyance; the stalled shipments of car parts and medicines were serious, as was the disappearance of the tourists who keep Rocky Mountain towns afloat in U.S. currency. An economy based on the trading of beef jerky can't hold up for long. For those few planeless days, our remote Montana valley...
...that things are happening, that the war is being waged and won. Bush is conscious of the problem. When he discovered the Treasury Department was slated to announce that the Administration had frozen the assets of Osama bin Laden and 27 organizations linked to his terror network--a relatively minor initiative--the President nixed the idea. Instead, Bush himself made the announcement, from the Rose Garden, declaring the move "a major thrust of our war on terrorism...
...rigid walls of idealism. It is to the film’s credit that it never tells us how things should be, but rather how things are. Maybe the characters aren’t perfect. Maybe their relationships aren’t perfect. But they survive because, as one minor character puts it, “the only thing worth anything is being together...
Rounding it all out is a minor criticism. A sophomore sailing teammate remarked that he is growing up too fast. “There’s a time for everything. I wouldn’t have picked this time to do what he did, but at the same time, it’s respectable,” the acquaintance said. Probably not the last word on this eligible bachelor...
...Bush administration officials have stressed the long-term nature of the war against terrorism, which is precisely what makes maintaining the coalition so essential - because direct military action plays only a minor role in such a conflict, the lion's share of which is waged at the political, diplomatic, intelligence, law enforcement and financial levels. And the trick, in which Secretaries Rumsfeld and Powell, Prime Minister Blair and a host of others are heavily engaged right now, is to ensure that whatever military action is taken doesn't throw the rest of the project off balance...