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Swimming at the Ritz at the peak of her influence? What a perfect exit, an elegant ending she could not have planned better...
McKinney, 46, is not just any NCO. A highly decorated, 28-year veteran who served with the infantry in Vietnam, he rose through every enlisted Army leadership position before reaching its peak. Four of his brothers have worn Army green and his identical twin James is sergeant major of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, overseeing troops at Aberdeen and the Army's other training bases...
What a beast! The pumped-up U.S. dollar has been kicking sand in the face of the yen and the mark. Last week the greenback climbed past 123 Japanese yen, a four-year high, and traded 1.65 against the German mark, a 2 1/2-year peak. Barely two years ago the U.S. currency traded at its postwar low. Europe and Japan love a strong dollar, since it lowers the price of their exports, which can stimulate more sales for their struggling economies. But cheaper Toyotas aren't good for everyone--for instance, General Motors and Chrysler reported weak sales last week...
...conversion to the Black Muslims tested white America's fondness for him. His refusal to serve in the Army made him the Vietnam War's most famous conscientious objector and deprived him of work for three years at the peak of his craft. Then Ali returned to lose the heavyweight belt to Joe Frazier...
Disaster movies are our millennial No plays, totally stylized, totally predictable, but comforting in their familiarity. Whether the threat to domestic tranquillity is a ferocious shark, invading spacemen or a rogue volcano (as in Dante's Peak), it reassures us that nice people, if they are smart, brave and quick on their feet, will somehow survive...