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...perfume or a LOCAL CELEBRITY T shirt. It would be easy to bemoan the trend as the end of childhood or the corruption of innocence. But the hunger for recognition doesn't end with the acquisition of a driver's license. As popular culture divides into ever more finely split niches, with Yahoo Groups and blogs touting the cream of whatever subculture you can think of a domain name for, famous is just a matter of answering your e-mail...
...Iraq, where Saddam has a 400,000-man army. As the plan bounced between Washington and Franks' Tampa, Fla., headquarters, Franks' troop count fell and then rose again as war planners became convinced that they might have to engage in door-to-door fighting in Baghdad. The final number split the difference: war with Iraq could begin with as few as 150,000 U.S. troops in the region--ready to strike by mid-February--with 100,000 or more standing by in Europe and elsewhere. "Rumsfeld is all about challenging your assumptions," says a senior Navy officer who works with...
...many people think that's what happens. The darker view is two years of subpoenas and investigations into every act of incompetence and duplicity of the last six years. Nothing moves, because no one agrees and the Congress is too closely split. And the President, fully lame, is powerless to drag it in any direction...
...Unfortunately, this country is very split,” Alesina said. “But there has been so much animosity between the two camps that it’s going to be very difficult to build coalitions that go across the two camps...
Instead, the film’s minimal plot centers on the alternately tense and tender relationship between Jones and Thorogood. Thorogood is the central figure of the last phase of Jones’ life: his constant companion, a witness to the unraveling that led to his split with the band, and possibly his killer...