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...Everybody concentrated on his looks - the sultry, pouting, feminine face, with its unabashed sexual threat - and his moves, cranking those hips like a honky-tonk woman's. As John Lennon said much later, it was an epiphany for kids to see "a guy with long, greasy hair wigglin' his ass and singin' 'Hound Dog'." Elvis was the first pop singer who had to be seen, not just heard, to be appreciated (or condemned). What was ignored at the time was his connection to the two crucial vocalists who had preceded him: Bing Crosby in the 1920s and 30s, Frank Sinatra...
...first campaign appearance after the initial wave of resignations, McCain-once known for his bipartisanship- blasted his Democratic opponents: "Democratic candidates for President will argue for the course of cutting our losses and withdrawing from the threat in the vain hope it will not follow us here. I cannot join them in such wishful and very dangerous thinking." Last month, McCain tried to enter the Obama-Clinton feud by attacking the Illinois Senator for his "naivete." And in last Sunday's presidential debate, McCain made sure that the audience knew he was a warrior: "I am fully prepared-fully prepared...
...threat of terrorism and extremism has not yet been eliminated," Nikolai Patrushev, Director of Russia's FSB (the KGB's heir), commented to Interfax wire agency. He has ordered his service to strengthen its control of Russia's sensitive installations. Patrushev said the train bomb was part of a pattern of violence that also included a spate of attacks on security forces and officials in the North Caucasus region around Chechnya...
...president to protect democracy and secularism." Some liberal commentators are supporting his candidacy as a reproach to the military for intervening too vocally in May. But the hard-line secularist Republican People's Party, or CHP, reacted harshly. Its leader, Deniz Baykal, denounced his nomination as a threat to the "peace and stability of this country." He told a Turkish newspaper, "If Gul is elected, Turkey's political balances will change . Turkey will be transformed into a country with an overbearing religious and Middle Eastern identity." Some Turkish business leaders have also called for alternate candidates to step forward...
This is a curious form of reassurance. Instead of sporadic attacks by a loosely organized enemy, we face a systematic threat well distributed across the nation. The strain on our foundations can cut Americans off from their jobs, their families and emergency services, sometimes just for short periods that don't make the news and sometimes permanently. While it's always nice to know there was no malice aforethought, infrastructure failures suggest a homeland that is less than secure...