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...never addresses the ethics of union busting. The replacement players don't agonize for a second about taking jobs from players who earned them. And at the end, Hackman elegizes the scabs: "They had been part of something great." Come on: these guys didn't dig the Panama Canal. They helped rich owners satisfy billion-dollar contracts with TV networks...
Whether he confides in you is another matter. Around Washington, Cheney has long had a reputation as affable but guarded, easy to like but hard to read. In The Commanders, Bob Woodward's account of top-level decision making during the Panama invasion and the Gulf War, Powell, whom Cheney had recommended to be head of the Joint Chiefs and who depended on Cheney as a pipeline to Cabinet meetings he did not sit in on, complains that "Cheney comes back from the White House and tells nothing." Pete Williams, an NBC News correspondent who was for years Cheney...
...build seven new 1,200-ft. chambers--double the length of the current locks--at a cost of $1.2 billion. And with the 400,000 jobs its Mississippi dams and locks provide, with its $4 billion annual budget, with its history of helping build the Capitol and the Panama Canal, and with the 12,000 miles of channels it now controls across America, the corps, you would think, will get what the corps wants. Politicians have always made sure of that...
...Williams, 18, of Panama City, Florida, thanked the Shriners for saving her life after she suffered burns on over 70 percent of her body as a child. She was recently voted the most athletic student in her class and chosen as captain of her high school cheerleading team...
Even the most celebrated technologies of the past are now regarded as low tech. Take the Panama Canal, an unparalleled feat of human vision, perseverance and engineering 85 years ago. Standing at the mouth of the canal, in the northern port city of Colon, peering out at the cargo ships, you get an overwhelming sense that you're witnessing an archaic process. Heavy ships traversing the surface of the globe, loaded down with computer parts, petroleum products and Pokemon cards, pause in mid-voyage to pass slowly through the strategically placed Isthmus of Panama before continuing their journey to another...