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...weather as well. AccuWeather and the Weather Channel (TWC) both offer hourly and extended forecasts with loads of weather-nerd stats, like barometric-pressure readings, as well as animated Doppler radar views. AccuWeather's zippy charts are easier to flip through; TWC makes users scroll and slog through data. Another new weather program is the eye-catching Weathernews, which displays a photograph of a city of your choosing along with its temperature and conditions. Hit the Down arrow on your phone, and you get, among other things, a still radar image and a severe-weather advisory, if there...
...limbers up, firing questions at aides, wondering aloud, What am I gonna get asked? These pregame warm-ups, a former aide explained, are designed to get him in the mood to match wits with reporters and "are as much about psychology as content." Few believe his "long, hard slog" memo of October--in which he frankly warned of a much more difficult war on terrorism and his concern that Washington was still poorly organized to fight it--was leaked without his O.K. Many think it was written to put him on the right side of history in case he departs...
...Ring films, like Master and Commander, celebrate old-fashioned martial virtues: honor, duty, comradeship, sacrifice--soldiering on, under an immense, sapping burden. Though the trilogy percolates with bracing adventure, it is a testament to the long slog of any war. Pain streaks the faces of the film's stalwart warriors. They know the enormity of their foe and know that the child hobbit who bears the Ring is far from them--surely in peril, perhaps lost forever. At one point Aragorn asks Gandalf, "What does your heart tell you?" and in a little movie epiphany, the wizard's face briefly...
...leaked memo, secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote that "the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq ... but it will be a long hard slog" [Nov. 3]. The memo shows that Rumsfeld intends to have it both ways. If the U.S. is successful in Iraq, he gets all the credit. If Iraq is a disaster, he can say, "I told you so!" EVELYN WOTHERSPOON Calgary...
...always my Pappaw. Rarely effusive, he played with my cousins and my sister, Lindsay, and I in his own way. When we went sledding, his tractor rides saved us from the slog up the long hill behind my grandparents’ house. I never balked at the opportunity to drive his ole John Deere, my dream machine for the first part of my life. Since Pappaw was always mowing or towing or fixing something, I had plenty of opportunities to take the wheel...