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...before all of popular culture could manage to switch sides to the terrorist camp, Britney Spears, as she has had to do countless times in the past, came to the nation’s rescue. On August 28, she announced her return to the political arena with a loud kiss planted on Madonna’s lips at the MTV Music Awards that screamed, “I’m baaack!” Then, a week later, she declared to an eager public her thoughts on how to be more American, and less like those Chicks from Kandahar...
...mere week before, his excitable Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, had demanded it "within a month." But that doesn't mean France is ready to fold, and with the German population as critical of U.S. actions in Iraq as the French, Schröder is not likely to switch from old to new Europe now; Blair knows it, and Bush should...
...logistics of his announcement suggest some radical rethinking. Kerry dropped his plan to make his announcement in front of Old Ironsides in Boston Harbor and instead will do it in South Carolina, in front of an aircraft carrier. The switch puts more emphasis on his military background and less on his Massachusetts roots, which are both political baggage and a reminder of how directly he is competing with Dean. And the aircraft-carrier backdrop draws a more direct contrast with a different presidential candidate: George W. Bush. You can count on hearing Kerry's favorite applause line of late...
That's because by then he and the other big-city mayors knew that there were no quick, easy fixes. Getting a power system up and running after a blackout--called a black start--involves much more than just flipping a switch. Power-generating units have to be brought online one at a time. If one power plant were brought up with all of Toledo waiting with its air conditioners in the on position, it would just shut down again. So technicians have to carve up cities into electrically isolated pieces and bring each neighborhood back...
...done now?" A small boy in Conway, N.H., whacked a telephone pole with a stick, saw night descend, and raced home weeping to his mother. Rumors flew wildly. On the beleaguered 4:55 to Croton-on-Hudson, a New York Central conductor cried: "Some Commie's pulled the switch from here to Canada!" Sabotage was on many minds. "You can't blame me," a Cuban U.N. official assured a U.S. delegate when the lights blew. "I was right here all the time." --Time...