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SNEAK PEEK For a nation that was injured so grievously on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. did not spend a lot of time nursing its wounds. Instead, we did what most countries do when they're attacked: we set out in pursuit of the people who did it. This left a quiet at home, and in that quiet, Taryn Simon turned inward...
...generous as that sounds, the 1944 bill--among the most significant pieces of legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress--included much more. Its education benefits threw open the doors of élite academies to the masses: in 1947, veterans made up almost half the nation's college students. It also offered low-interest, no-money-down mortgages, backed by the U.S. government, that allowed millions of families to purchase their first homes. The move helped spark the postwar baby boom and the suburbanization of America in the 1950s: it effectively created the American middle class...
...when the initial program ended, close to half the nation's 16 million veterans had either gone to college or received job training. A generation flourished. The current situation presents far more difficult choices. With the U.S. military stretched thin, President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain--a veteran's veteran if ever there was one--oppose the latest version of the GI Bill over fears that its educational opportunities will reduce the number of soldiers re-enlisting for further tours of duty. But supporters of the new bill point out that duty runs both ways. As Webb puts...
...Immensely Difficult Time ..." The stiffest challenge McCain's team faces is the nation's surly mood, which, if surveys are right, is only turning darker. From the giddy confines of the McCain campaign plane in late April, it was easy to imagine the Democratic Party bickering all the way to the August convention. Republicans were scratching their heads in disbelief at their good luck: McCain's approval ratings remained at near historic levels - at more than 60%, some 30 points ahead of the Republican Party brand's. "I think the way things are going, we could say that McCain...
...Culiacan, so often packed with locals, is no ordinary Mexican saint - Malverde was a Sinaloan bandit who has been adopted as a kind of a patron saint by the northern province's drug traffickers. Sinaloa is the cradle of Mexico's narco-trafficking industry, producing the majority of the nation's drug kingpins in recent decades. Their number includes such storied figures as Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who ran the Guadalajara Cartel and ordered the savage killing of a DEA agent; Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias "The Lord of the Skies," who died in plastic surgery while attempting to change...