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Naturally, he is thrilled by the attentions of Rosemary, who appears to him in the svelte form of Paltrow but as a 300-pound fat joke to everyone else. Peter and Bobby Farrelly, the brothers behind There’s Something About Mary and this year’s disastrous Osmosis Jones, have made sure that every cliché is in place. Rosemary’s idea of a light snack is half a chocolate layer cake (shoved greedily into her waiting mouth with both hands). She has the unfortunate habit of breaking a chair each time she sits down...
...Week 5 therefore opened with more fearsome bombing raids on Taliban frontlines, including the reported use on Sunday of two 15,000-pound fuel-air "daisy cutter" bombs - the largest known conventional explosive, which ignites the air and incinerates everything in a 600-yard radius. The Pentagon claimed its air attacks have killed a "substantial number" of Taliban troops, and Rear-Admiral John Stufflebeem reported Monday that Taliban forces are pinned down by bombing and have been unable to return fire against its opponents for several days. He also claimed that al Qaeda's "known infrastructure" had been destroyed...
...driver's seat," says Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem. But now the commanders are stepping on the accelerator. As many as 100 commandos are already on Afghan soil and hooking up with Northern Alliance forces. The "forward air controllers" among them call in B-52 strikes to pound Taliban positions without hitting Alliance troops. Until now the Taliban's front lines have been spared the weight of American bombs, but last week the U.S. unleashed 80% of its firepower on Taliban soldiers in Mazar and Kabul. There's more to come. Rumsfeld promises a relentless carpet-bomb barrage and a four...
...premature to say that. The battle plan is evolutionary; it moved very quickly from targeting air defenses to targeting fixed targets to targeting mobile targets. But the U.S. clearly believes winter is not a time for hibernation, and the military will continue to pound the Taliban as long as authorities continue to give them the go-ahead...
...sonnets and odes to environmentalism are just as likely to be thoughtful elementary school students as moody teens. Opportunities for kids to develop their writing skills are popping up everywhere, from local after-school programs to Internet sites. And kids, in droves, are taking up pen (and mouse) to pound out essays, poems and stories in record numbers...