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...after a few minutes of small talk and nervous laughter, Phillips arranged the trio in a circle. Then he asked Elvis what he wanted to play. There was more nervous laughter; Elvis knew only a few songs, and most of those he couldn't play from start to finish. Somehow, the group fumbled through the mawkish Harbor Lights, which had been a 1950 hit for Bing Crosby. From the control room, Phillips drawled, "That's pretty good," although it wasn't. Elvis sounded boring, mechanical. Phillips called for a break...
...designs on Charles herself. Her sister hardly looked like competition, standing shyly by in a checked shirt and an anorak. Nor was the future princess greatly impressed herself: "What a sad man," she thought of Charles. Her opinion soon changed, and as her father would recall of the weekend, "Somehow she automatically ended up standing at the side of Prince Charles." Years later, she would leave, of course, but that's another story...
...high-tech tracking was valuable, but a recon mission would provide critical intelligence for Charlie Rock. First Sergeant William Mitchell headed out with in M-113 track along with a squad of three tanks and a scout humvee. The order was fire only if fired upon. And yet somehow, soon enough, those high-tech thermal images would become a flesh and blood enemy in a heavy exchange of fire...
...profoundly different from ours, the chances of lethal misunderstandings far greater than they were in Europe. President Bush seemed to dismiss this concern in a speech to the American Enterprise Institute on Feb. 26: "It is presumptuous and insulting to suggest that a whole region of the world...is somehow untouched by the most basic aspirations of life. Human cultures can be vastly different, yet the human heart desires the same good things everywhere on earth...
What on earth has happened to American conservatism? It used to be a reliably dour movement, a sober restraint upon the wishful thinking of mushy-minded liberals. But it has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy. On the domestic side, there is the sugarplum delusion of endless tax cuts and untrammeled government spending. In foreign policy, there is a wildly idealistic pro-democracy jihad. (Iraq will be the first of many dominoes to fall, it is said...