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...mangy dogs sulking in the shade. Some of the most physically beautiful people on earth glided by on bicycles. All smiled. ''There's an old French fort on top of a mountain up here,'' said Dave. ''It was an ugly place to be.'' We stopped, looked at a few thousand bullet holes. On through Phu Bai, gone back now to rice paddies and oxen and lacerating elephant grass. Next, lovely old Hue; there the monks have enshrined the Austin that in 1963 carried one of their number to what was then Saigon, where he immolated himself (a photograph...
...brickbats of his own. ''Having a reasonably short fuse, I am usually very unhappy at a less than perfect performance. We are always under the spotlight. There are always many decisions that a corporate executive makes in a hurry. They are crisis decisions, but he doesn't have a thousand reporters watching him and 5,000 who are going to write or comment on how he handled it. ''It's the art of the possible,'' says Regan, who believes he is calming a few critics. ''I think people see what we are doing, and they've grown accustomed...
...Obama's game plan this summer is to take that 700,000 in 29 states and then triple or quadruple that figure by the time registration closes in the fall. That is why his Chicago headquarters is moving what is believed to be an army of several thousand volunteers into the field in each of as many as 18 states this summer to boost registrations further. And the $50 million Obama announced this week that he raised in June will help pay for that effort...
...more troops will certainly help the country's security situation, they will not win the war. Afghanistan is besieged by a multitude of problems, not least of which is the endemic corruption that has eviscerated any faith the Afghans once had in their government. "Russia came here with 150 thousand troops, and you know what happened," says businessman Mohammad Akbar Bhai. "Even if you bring one million troops in Afghanistan, the West cannot win. What we need is honest government. If a river starts in mud, everything downstream will be dirty...
...same thing. It's where Charlie Chaplin shot a two-reeler, Work, in 1915, and where Harold Lloyd made many of his silent comedies. By the late '40s it had become a seductively seedy location for the film noir crowd: Act of Violence, Hollow Triumph, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Criss Cross, Douglas Sirk's Shockproof, Joseph Losey's remake of M and Kiss Me Deadly were all filmed there. The 1999 L.A. Confidential went to Bunker Hill to capture the majestic sleaze of the city circa 1953, Now a Frank Gehry building, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, looms over...