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Each Crusader system costs $23 million and, as witnessed by TIME during recent tests, it constitutes an amazing weapon. The three-man-crew compartment, lined with computer displays, looks more like the inside of a highflying jet cockpit than a mud-churning battlefield beast. Each system is actually two vehicles--the tracked business end topped with a turret and 155-mm gun, and a resupply vehicle carrying ammo and fuel. The gun's unique liquid-cooled barrel and automatic loading system allow it to fire 10 rounds a minute up to 25 miles, overwhelming the four-round, 18-mile range...
George Bush steps from one wet rock up onto another. "It gets even better over here," he promises, poking a boot into the mud for balance. We're climbing on a line of small boulders that form a joint down the middle of a gully as if they'd been rolled there like dice. "I'm gonna put a wooden walkway of some kind in here," he says, dodging a vine. Bush can look as if he's clanging around in a blue suit, but he doesn't look lost on the ranch in the Marlboro Man getup: worn black...
...more than half a century after he left his native Iowa, Pusey's speech is still folksy. Joe McCarthy was "a damn foolish" fellow who turned many a "name into mud." But Pusey is a city cat too. As he talks about the places where he has worked over the years, he instinctively provides their street address and cross streets, as a New Yorker would...
...pols like Poole, who helped her in that campaign, were dazzled by her "unbelievable drive." In the 1998 race that saw her elected to her current post, she engaged in some of the most steely-eyed mudslinging seen in the state in many years--and in the primaries the mud was flung against a G.O.P. friend and mentor. But that hard-won post proved too pedestrian for Harris. The job entails overseeing corporate filings, concealed-weapon permits and the state's election procedures. And so in her thousand-dollar power suits, Harris turned the office into a glamorous, globe-trotting...
...made the state a dysfunctional place in crises--a warning to the rest of the nation, he adds, about the pitfalls of centrism. "When the parties are as intellectually bankrupt as they are in this state today," says Scher, "it leaves the politicians with little to do but mud wrestle at times like this, not for the sake of their party causes but for the sake of blind, individual ambition." America, you've tuned in to Tallahassee!, a TV soap opera about rich political white people behaving badly...