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...wait. Last week Clinton read a New York Times piece detailing George Bush's foray into New Hampshire, replete with examples of the President's tortured rhetoric. After seeing Bush's answer to a question about extending unemployment benefits ("If a frog had wings, he wouldn't hit his tail on the ground -- too hypothetical"), Clinton said, "Oh it'll be fun. Sometimes I have to remember I've got to beat the other guys first...
...each of those becomes indelibly linked with a particular activity -- drinking coffee, talking on the phone, driving. In his recent book, Smoking: The Artificial Passion, David Krogh writes, "Addiction and attachment, pharmacology and behavior, personality, culture and genetics all chase each other around like a cat after its own tail when we start to consider the issue of why people smoke...
...string of six or eight planes," Taylor recalled. "I was on one's tail as we went over Waialua . . . and there was one following firing at me . . . Lieut. Welch, I think, shot the other man down." Welch's version: "We took off directly into them and shot some down. I shot down one right on Lieut. Taylor's tail...
...techniques of dive-bombing and torpedo bombing were still relatively new, and aerial torpedoes were almost impossible to use in water as shallow as Pearl Harbor. Filching an idea from a recent British torpedo raid against the Italian naval base of Taranto, Genda had technicians create auxiliary wooden tail fins that would keep torpedoes closer to the surface; others converted armor-piercing shells into bombs. But drilling was Fuchida's main task, and all summer his planes staged trial runs over Kagoshima Bay in Kyushu, chosen for its physical resemblance to Pearl. Only in September did Genda tell...
...Navy still had one great secret weapon, though: its code breakers could read Japanese naval messages. From those, Pacific Fleet commander Chester Nimitz knew that the Japanese planned to seize the eastern approaches to Australia by attacking Port Moresby, on the tail of New Guinea, in the first week in May. Nimitz stripped bare Pearl Harbor's defenses to mount an all-out attack on the Japanese invaders as they entered the Coral...