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...heartrending pity of war the way good poetry can, particularly that written in trenches and foxholes amid the horrors of combat. It is one thing to read in a textbook that more than 116,000 U.S. soldiers died in World War I; it's quite another to be struck by the question British poet Wilfred Owen raised in his Anthem for Doomed Young: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/Only the monstrous anger of the guns./Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons." But Owen never learned that he had penned some...
...book about his glory days in the White House and his inglorious ones, including the time he was falsely accused of snorting cocaine at Studio 54 and insulting the wife of the Egyptian ambassador by admiring her pyramids. But it is mostly a book about being struck by lightning three times, first by non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 40, then by skin cancer six years later, and by prostate cancer four years after that. Don Imus listened more than he talked for a full hour, giving a window into the mystery of how larger-than-life figures like Jordan...
...actually makes China strong. China has the advantage--the underdog's advantage--that comes from knowing that shutting the country out, trying to hold it down, provokes the resentments the West wants to avoid: resentments that might make Chinese markets hostile to U.S. exporters. When a U.S. bomber accidentally struck China's embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo war, protests were heard not just in Beijing but also in other cities around the world. America's image as an overbearing superpower is something the Chinese are only too willing to exploit...
...officially a war. Many peacetime legal and political restrictions remained in effect. Governments limited the pace of the action, the types of weapons that could be used and the targets that could be struck. Our targets were often in the midst of civilians--some of the very people we were trying to help. We looked at each target carefully before we struck, and we used precision weapons--laser-, GPS- or TV-guided bombs and missiles--as often as possible to limit risks to innocent civilians...
Thoke managed to fool a number of the Sooner batters throughout the night. She struck out six and walked just two, but Oklahoma's skilled hitters managed to touch her up for seven runs, including two home runs...