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Rumsfeld has lately kept busy strewing political wreckage on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. First, he wrote a frank memo about the war on terrorism that was at odds with much of the Administration's public spin for the past several months. Then he alienated the one person, apart from Bush, on whom the Pentagon most relies for sustenance--Virginia Senator John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. A former Navy Secretary, Warner went to the Senate floor to complain that Rumsfeld had in effect ignored his request for an investigation into Lieut. General William "Jerry" Boykin...
...days leading up to the face-off sharpening their differences over the state of the occupation. At a speech in New York City, Kerry trashed Bush's upbeat assessment of conditions in Iraq and the next day accused the Commander in Chief of living in a "world of fantasy spin" for speaking of Iraq as a budding democracy. In fact, Kerry says, Iraq has become a Hobbesian environment that is breeding terrorists and sucking U.S. forces into a Vietnam-style quagmire, a "war with no end in sight." Some Kerry advisers exulted in their candidate's straight talk. "We have...
...based economy and advanced manufacturing. Knauf Insulation is Shelbyville's largest employer, with more than 800 workers. Salaries start at $16.50 an hour, and the benefits at this German company are, well, positively European. In one of its factories along the Blue River, a row of mammoth 2400° furnaces spin the plant's secret recipe of sand, soda ash, borax and limestone into billions of billowy glass fibers, which will be cooled, packed and cut into battens of fiber-glass insulation. The workers running the furnaces are the last of a dying breed: people holding good jobs who never earned...
...March What's Next special, I presented Sanyo?s HD1 digital pocket camcorder, the first to record high-definition video directly to an SD memory card. Now that it?s available, I took it for a spin...
...goal, Martin slipped a goal pass Golden to tie the score at five all. Martin also provided an assist to junior Margaret Yellott 17:41 into the first half. Perched about fifteen yards out from the goal, Martin threw a quick inlet pass to Yellott. Using a swift spin move, she shook her defender and left an easy shot on goal. In the next possession, Martin took a chance at the goal. Situated on the right side of the goal, she angled the ball over the left shoulder of Golden to tie the game at five...