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PLAYMATES BABY BRIGHT EYES At first blush, she seems rather ordinary. But look again. This doll ($50; due this fall) has azure blue oversize eyes that blink, sweep the room and interact with your child. NanoMuscle technology silently powers the robotic eyes to eerie effect. The spinoff possibilities are tantalizing: Chucky lives...
...here comes the Terminator on a mission to sweep out the dastardly Democrats and restore truth and justice in California, and here in Minnesota we watch the show with a delicious vicarious pleasure. We invented the action-hero Governor. We wrote that particular comic book. And now California, so often on the cutting edge, is following in our footsteps. Us, a little dairy and turkey-raising state on the upper Mississippi. This is great. It's like the townsfolk in Huckleberry Finn who attended the Duke and Dauphin's theatrical show and then told their neighbors how great...
...story home perched on the edge of a sandy bluff overlooking the Tigris, some 10 miles north of the city of Tikrit. They reach the compound's metal gate, M-16s locked and loaded. A translator bangs on the door. When an old woman opens up, the troops sweep through the garden and into the house. An intelligence report had said Taha Yasin Ramadan, Saddam Hussein's Vice President, might be in the area...
...pushed Pakistan for months to launch this operation. Military intelligence suggested that a dozen terrorists--possibly including bin Laden--might be holed up in the feisty Mohmand tribe's mountain stronghold, which straddles the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The plan was to have the Pakistanis sweep into the tribal area while U.S. troops sealed off the Afghan side, trapping the terrorists. Things went awry when Mohmand tribesmen and Afghan fighters supporting the U.S. forces attacked the Pakistani soldiers. The Pakistanis, unsurprisingly, shot back. All together a dozen were killed or injured, and the U.S. was left to referee...
...this Scarlett O’Hara hasn’t yet found a Rhett Butler to sweep her away. And the “Sex and the City” gang would likely find my romance uninspiring...