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...last week's events expose the Bush Doctrine as too brittle for an unruly world? Not to hear Administration officials tell it. Instead, they provided fresh evidence that terrorism and nuclear weapons are the twin threats facing the civilized world and that nothing less than a brave and muscular response can save us. "Those who choose to live in denial may eventually be forced to live in fear," Bush declared as he signed the Iraq resolution. Or put another way, all those credulous Clinton folks who cut deals with North Korea to stall its nuclear program, who tossed some bombs...
...Like most other Travelers, Penn has a madonna statue on his lawn. Hisdaughter was 14 when she married her 20-year-old fiance--an arranged match, like "99%" of village marriages, he says. And like many other Travelers, Penn never made it past sixth grade. But he drives a muscular black pickup with tinted windows, and the Traveler women draw stares when they go into town, dolled up with layers of makeup and halos of hair...
...rider overcame 160 km of difficult country - made so treacherous by torrential rain that dozens of horses pulled up and two died of exhaustion - to take the prize ahead of Italy's Antonio Rosi and Sunny Demedy from France. On the water in Seville, various permutations of extremely muscular rowers combined to send extremely slight boats skittering over the surface of the Guadalquivir River. In the final of the men's coxless pair, the British team of Matthew Pinsent and James Cracknell avenged the defeat they suffered in the World Cup regatta in Lucerne in July at the hands...
...really dangerous. I've almost drowned. But I've won it three times," she says, referring to the professional surfing competition held at Teahupoo each May. With her sun-bleached blond hair and slim, muscular build, Kennelly, 24, is one of the growing cadre of elite female surfers who are transforming the once male-dominated sport of surfing into both a passion and a pastime for a growing number of women around the world. Fierce and strong yet graceful and elegant, she represents a new kind of athlete that girls can dream of becoming...
...Some of these events occurred after "Hellfire" went to press. The book is beautifully written, of course - Tosches is the Sugar Ray Robinson of biographers, muscular but not muscle-bound, gliding, circling, then stinging with an insight - and has an unflagging, indeed accelerating, vigor for 150 pages. Eventually, though, the narrative winds down into terse renditions of Jerry Lee's police blotter. It's as if Tosches were waiting, with suppressed impatience, for his subject to expire or explode...