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...tank-sized, white shuttle car, the tunes are blaring and the heat is blasting. I give the opening speech that I'd been preparing for a week...
...bedrooms the children shared overflow with stuffed animals and children's books. A hamster scrambles through wood chips in a glass tank and fish dart back and forth in two well-kept tanks...
...Chechnya I met young boys sent off to war almost immediately after they were drafted. One brigade, which arrived directly from Siberia, was dispatched into Grozny at night, knowing nothing of the city, in a fog so thick you could barely see 10 steps ahead. The commander of a tank battalion told me that he had to train his soldiers at the front, since they had been assigned to him only days before the unit was deployed in Chechnya. ``You wouldn't believe it,'' he told me. ``There were noncommissioned officers who had studied for six months and didn...
...Tanks for the Memory At first Hollywood stardom did not improve KEIKO'S life. Sure, the orca had all the fish he wanted, and kids loved him. But the 3.5-ton star of the hit movie Free Willy had outgrown his tank at a Mexico City amusement park, and he suffered from a herpes-like skin condition. After an outpouring of letters, his Mexican owners are donating him to a more spacious aquarium in Oregon, where he will be readied for a life of freedom in the waters off Iceland...
Eisenach describes himself as Gingrich's ``intellectual sidekick,'' but he insists the foundation is wholly independent of Gingrich as well as organizations like GOPAC. That defense is less than satisfying to critics. Before founding Progress and Freedom, Eisenach was executive director of GOPAC. His think tank, furthermore, is steward to ``Renewing American Civilization,'' the 20-hour college course that Gingrich teaches. Eisenach, however, denies that he remains beholden to partisan zealots at GOPAC. ``The clique that feeds at the trough of Republican politics is not my crowd,'' he told . ``I survived at GOPAC by telling them I'd leave them...