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...time ago, leaving a fanatical hard core to stay for the last stand. They had little intention of surviving." The Americans blasting away at the holdouts recognize this and lament opportunities lost. "This is my second time in northern Iraq," says a special-forces soldier. "I should be in Tampa with my wife enjoying spring break. Instead I'm here, and I wouldn't be if we'd done this right the first time...
...display at the White House on the war's opening night has vanished. A presidential adviser said aides were trying to concentrate on their work while glued to their televisions. "They're very, very somber," the adviser said. Before Bush's speech at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Tampa, Fla., last Wednesday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters aboard Air Force One that Bush would declare the war was progressing "ahead of schedule." But Bush decided to scratch that sentence from his speech, eliciting private criticism from an Administration official, a rarity in Bush's Washington. "It made...
...teens--and their eager imitators among suburban kids and dads of all races. Flip on MTV, Black Entertainment Television or an ESPN postgame press conference, and you're bound to see rapper Nelly in a bright orange Spirits of St. Louis jersey (the basketball team folded in 1976) or Tampa Bay Buccaneers football star Warren Sapp in a Kelly green, early 1980s Philadelphia Eagles getup. (Sapp wore a series of M&N throwbacks--which retail for $250 to $470--throughout Super Bowl week.) Lebron James, the nation's top high school basketball player, got suspended in late January for accepting...
...disappoint, as Opening Day brought more surprises than necessary to make it entertaining. The meltdown of Mets starter Tom Glavine might have been enough, but the struggles of Atlanta’s Greg Maddux and news of The Big Unit tanking pushed the fun over the top. Throw in Tampa Bay’s Carl Crawford’s bedevilment of the Red Sox with a walkoff home run that ran Boston’s bullpen ERA to the stratosphere, and we had an exciting first...
...time ago leaving a fanatical hardcore to stay for the last stand. They had little intention of surviving." The Americans blasting away at the holdouts recognize this and lament past opportunities lost. "This is my second time in northern Iraq," says a Special Forces soldier. "I should be in Tampa with my wife enjoying spring break. Instead I'm here, and I wouldn't be if we'd done this right the first time...