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...both highly strategic (you've got to stay on speaking terms with Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf) and tremendously detailed (you've got to make sure a quarter of a million troops have enough of everything, from tracer bullets to disposable razors). From a sprawling concrete headquarters in Tampa, Fla., that looks like a huge Wal-Mart without the big blue signs, Franks and a staff of 3,200 are running both the war in Afghanistan and the looming conflict in Iraq...
Franks' day typically begins at 4 a.m., with 30 minutes on the treadmill in the sunroom of his government-provided house on the grounds of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. He blasts country tunes--Garth Brooks and Travis Tritt--and '50s pop on his CD player. Sometimes he sings along, and sometimes the noise wakes his wife Cathy. Then he heads for his computer to check e-mail and the news amid gulps of black coffee. Cathy kisses him goodbye each morning with a charge: "Go make the world safe for democracy...
When the Fighting Irish took on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays last Spring, Morgalis struck out 1993 World Series MVP Pat Borders and discovered what a magical experience...
...gone and ruined things for the rest of us. I understand that when people buy SUVs, they often delude themselves about how they will use them, imagining wind-whipped sand dunes and alpine lakes. But why in the world would someone need a Hummer? An armed incursion into downtown Tampa...
...public opinion is coming around. At coffee shops and water coolers, Powell's performance won high marks. To be sure, there are plenty of Americans like Vicki Pollyea, an Air Force colonel's daughter in Tampa, Fla., who feel "we're jumping into something extremely dangerous without world support, and it has a real feeling of Vietnam." But in the TIME/CNN poll, 17% said Powell had changed their mind. Before his speech, they opposed sending troops to Iraq; now they favored it. "It scared me," said Abby Headrick, 20, a University of Georgia junior, of the speech...