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...This is an administration led by cowboys who come out with guns drawn. They shoot first and ask questions later. The memos by government lawyers about torture lead up, not down. But the ones who will pay the price for the scandal will be the soldiers in the field. This is a President who pushes religion to the hilt, but where is the compassion? Adolfo Cruz St. Pardoux la Rivière, France...
They'll get better. Although Cassini will never again be as close to the rings as it was last week, it took only black-and-white pictures on the way into orbit. From now on, it will shoot between 100 and 200 images a day, most of them in color. The spacecraft will assemble mosaics of the rings, photographing them section by section and arranging the pictures in sequence from the center of the bands...
...refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" with that of Haitian General Toussaint Louverture who, as he was captured by the French and was being taken to his death, declared, "In overthrowing me they have only felled the tree of Negro liberty ... It will shoot up again, for it is deeply rooted and its roots are many...
...time the military received Vice President Dick Cheney's authorization to shoot down any hostile aircraft, at 10:31 a.m., the last of the hijacked planes had already crashed. The commission report says Cheney did first get the President's go-ahead over the phone but commissioners told TIME that formal documentation for that order is incomplete. However it came about, the commission also reveals that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) never actually relayed Cheney's command to its pilots in the air, some of whom were seeking a jet, American Airlines Flight 11, that had earlier crashed...
...lifelong Vegas resident) Anthony Zuiker, the turning point came not with his show but in 2002 when MTV's The Real World taped a season in Vegas and drew an enthusiastic young audience. "Before that," he says, "there were a lot of problems when we were trying to shoot in Vegas. The executives at the casinos were afraid to show dead bodies." (Partly for budgetary reasons, the scripted Vegas series still shoot mostly in L.A.) Now even cartoonists are rolling the dice: this fall NBC launches Father of the Pride, a computer-animated series from the makers of Shrek, about...