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...mood is raw in part because uncertainty is the enemy now. "Your kids ask, 'How long will you be gone, Daddy?'" says Colonel Weber. "And you say, I don't know. 'Will you have to kill anybody?' 'I don't know.' 'Will you go to Iraq?' 'Dunno.' And all that uncertainty weighs on you. In a deployment like this, you just don't know." The soldiers all talk about logistics and training and tying up loose ends. This is what we do. This is what we've trained for. But they hardly ever talk about...
...comix chapters by Paul Karasik (a former associate editor of "RAW" magazine and co-author of the graphic novel version of Paul Auster's "City of Glass") get as close to an explanation of David's inner life one can hope to. One clever chapter is narrated by Gorilla Watson, an "Adventures of Superman" bad guy who David refers to repeatedly. Gorilla explains that while everything outside David's head is splintered, "Inside it's as tidy and rich as Fort Knox." At the end, in a sad twist the final panel shows Gorilla behind bars with David, calling...
...nonaggression treaty they requested, if a credible assurance of their security was presented in some high-level fashion. What they really wanted, it seemed to me, was a face-saving way out of the uranium-enrichment program, which, according to U.S. intelligence, is years away from producing the raw material for even a single nuclear weapon. In the meantime, because the program violates Pyongyang's previous nonnuclear commitments, it is damaging the regime's relationships with its neighbors--relationships North Korea had been industriously seeking to improve to obtain the aid and trade that may be essential to its survival...
...details of Reston's rise within the Times, from his arrival as a raw reporter at age 29 to his takeover of the Washington bureau 15 years later, will intrigue any fan of bureaucratic politics. Stacks makes clear that Reston used every ploy of the classic man on the make. He sought and flattered professional patrons. He was useful and devoted to the Sulzberger family, which owned the Times--and to Katharine Graham, who kept trying to lure him to the Washington Post. He made pre-emptive strikes against in-house rivals. He lost only one major battle inside...
SMOLIK: At Dow, we typically work with customers rather than suppliers because our suppliers are the oil companies and such. Our customers are typically companies that make products for consumers--a Nike or a Procter & Gamble. A lot of times, we have the technology for a better, more sustainable raw material that they can use. Nike, for example, is a consumer-product company, so just as soon as some particular component becomes very unpopular, they switch pretty quickly. That's why socially responsible investors and environmental groups are good. They put pressure on the system. They put pressure...