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...publishers of The Iconoclast endorsed Bush four years ago based on the things he promised, not on this smoke-screened agenda." AN EDITORIAL in The Lone Star Iconoclast, a weekly newspaper in Bush's hometown of Crawford, Texas, announcing its endorsement of Bush's opponent John Kerry...
...latest plague to beset Haiti, where tropical storm Jeanne left at least 1,500 dead and some 300,000 homeless, is hunger. Flood victims received free bags of water in Gona�ves, while elsewhere in this northern port city U.N. troops fired smoke grenades to protect food convoys that had come under attack. Meanwhile, the U.S. promised more than $2 million in disaster aid after being criticized for its initial pledge...
...Satellite pictures show that 14 insurgents have moved south and prepared an ambush near Ramadi's soccer stadium. Humvees and trucks ferry troops that way. Upon arrival, they head to the rooftops. An explosion occurs to the west, and the streets cough black smoke into the sky. The town briefly goes quiet save a few isolated shots. Pigeons perch on a rooftop aerial, cooing softly. Bitsui tries to clean the blood from his fingers. "You just hate for that to happen," says Cpl. Edward B. Wiley. "You see a kid like that, it makes you sick. But some of these...
...Once you go in that door with the smoke, you look back and you don’t even know where you came from,” says actor Kevin Chapman, who plays firefighter Frank McKinney. “And that’s a terrifying feeling.” But from donning the fireman’s suit to rigging in the water hose, authenticity was pursued with dogmatic scrutiny from inception to wrap...
...Okay, go in there, there’s a [dummy] baby you have to find,’” he recounts. “I went in there, tore that place apart. You have about three inches of visibility once you’re in smoke, and I couldn’t find it. The captain took me back in and showed me the door I had smashed to get into the apartment. The baby was right behind there. And my daughter had just been born 9 months before, so when I saw that my heart just cracked...