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...made up what Omar Bradley called the "thin wet line of khaki that dragged itself ashore" on D-day were the beneficiaries of a long and patient exercise in presidential education and artful diplomacy that sustained their belief in the righteousness of their cause, spared them an even more horrific fate, and gave them the time to do their job with dispatch and dignity. Franklin Roosevelt bought them that time. It was the Russians who largely paid the bill...
...beach with its huge seawall at the foot of a massive bluff. An 88-mm shell landed right in the middle of the LCA [to] the side of us, and splinters of the boat, equipment and bodies were thrown into the air. Bullets were passing through the thin wooden sides of our vessel. The ramp was lowered, and the inner door was opened. A German machine gun trained on the opening took a heavy toll of lives. Many of my 30 buddies went down as they left...
Although Nader rejects the idea that he cost Al Gore the 2000 election, it is an article of faith among Democratic leaders that he did. In Florida and New Hampshire, the number of Nader votes was significantly greater than Bush's thin margin of victory; Gore would be President had he won either state. "In 2000 we made a mistake because we ignored Nader for months," says Gore's former campaign manager Donna Brazile. "We gave him time not only to build a credible movement but also to get inside battleground states and hold huge rallies...
...definition of national territory; and the notable omission of his often repeated phrase, condemned by Beijing, of "one country on either side of the Taiwan Strait"-were the result of intense negotiations between Washington and Taipei after Chen won Taiwan's bitterly contested presidential polls by a razor-thin majority in March. "We spent a great deal of time with the Taiwanese, talking about what we thought was constructive," says a senior U.S. State Department official...
...piece de resistance, with styling that evokes Connery-era Bond. Thumb size and weighing just 2 oz., the camera comes in a leather-and-chrome briefcase with loads of accessories, from flash unit to telephoto lens to video-output connector for viewing shots on TV. The camera uses a thin lithium-ion battery and the smallest autofocus lens available and has only two buttons on its exterior. Image quality is a mere two megapixels, but some nice software tricks compensate for the lack of resolution...