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...President with lists of options and no one speaking out of turn; White House officials say that on Wednesday the Oval Office was a swirl of activity. Chairs were dragged in from the hallway; the President's advisers leaned over one another and volunteered their assessments as more raw intelligence reports flowed in. Bush asked whether the weather might impede an attack on Saddam, how quickly U.S. forces could carry out the mission and how an early strike could affect the rest of the battle plan. Racing against the clock and unable to confirm much of what it was hearing...
...polls and term-limited from running again, is about to be rendered a lame duck by the mayoral primary on Sept. 11. When the attack comes, Giuliani's efforts to organize the recovery and comfort the city are shot in jittery handheld video, giving the scenes a raw, home-movie look that meshes seamlessly with real footage of the Twin Towers burning and people leaping to their death. The audacious technique flirts with sensationalism but also slices through any jadedness about these all-too-familiar images...
Harvard’s hitters showed some raw power against No. 18 Florida Atlantic (24-7) last Monday night, but not enough to go blast-for-blast with the Owls...
...grown to about an eighth of the U.S. population. The show subtly represents the variety of Latin culture--for instance, George is Mexican and his wife Angie (Constance Marie) is Cuban. But it also brings a different kind of diversity to TV. Few sitcoms since Roseanne have taken a raw, personal look at a working-class family and its psychological baggage. Most family comedies today avoid dark themes or sublimate them, as in Everybody Loves Raymond's passive-aggressive squabbles. Lopez is willing to get ugly, albeit with a grin. After a fight between George and his mom (Belita Moreno...
...work one night recently for a stag dinner right out of a buddy movie. Back in January, their wives out of town, Franks and Rumsfeld hit a Georgetown sushi bar after the multimillionaire Pentagon chief decided to give the Oklahoma-born and Texas-reared artilleryman his first taste of raw fish. As Franks recalled it, "About midafternoon he said, 'Let's go eat sushi,' and I said, 'Eat what?' I told him I'd be proud to do it if he'd show me how, so he did." Both men enjoyed themselves that evening, as other patrons stopped by their...