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...keep him within striking distance of Bush, at least through the summer. In the fall the strategy will shift to hand-to-hand combat in half a dozen or so key states, Gore strategists say, and that is where they think their candidate will have the advantage. The terrain of issues varies--guns in New Jersey, the economy in Michigan, the environment in California--and the plan is to hammer each one hard enough to put Gore over the top. "It's not the wave but the strange riptides of this election" that will determine its outcome, says a Gore...
...climbing into wheeled vehicles, not the tracked tanks that have been the backbone of Army armor for more than a half-century. The civilian world's fascination with off-road vehicles has generated improvements the military wants for itself. Twenty years ago, only tracked vehicles could traverse squishy terrain. Today tire pressure can be adjusted from inside the cab--the softer the ground, the softer the tires--meaning heavy, tracked vehicles no longer have a monopoly on mobility. "If technology permits," says Shinseki, in what some of his colleagues see as battlefield blasphemy, "we are prepared to consider going...
Seven years after Booker Prize-winning Michael Ondaatje won nearly universal acclaim for The English Patient, he returns to the literary world with Anil's Ghost-a tale that verges on the same dark terrain: war. Waiting years for him to publish again, one could not imagine where on the globe Ondaatje would choose to place his pen next. The Sri Lankan-born author (transplanted to Canada) who has written evocative pieces set in the old West, the early jazz era and World War II, chooses a different time and place for this story: the Sri Lanka of the present...
...small to deal with the scale of the problem and therefore vulnerable to attacks and kidnapping, which appears to be exactly what has happened in Sierra Leone," says Dowell. "But it's no simple matter to expand the peacekeeping force, because to control a recalcitrant guerrilla army in hostile terrain would require a military commitment far larger even than what the U.S. undertook in Vietnam, and it's unlikely that the international community will be willing to take that on." In addition, the threadbare economies of countries such as Sierra Leone and the Congo create little grounds for optimism about...
Travel is much easier when the terrain is familiar, when the challenges--however difficult--are ones we understand...