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...also because he's tricky goods, with one of those smeary little mustaches that signal untrustworthiness and the kind of stage manner from which unexamined overuse has drained both spontaneity and authenticity. Even Eddie's devotion to the USO circuit is suspect. His piety is a bit too hair-trigger, and there's always a self- serving glint in his eye when he volunteers the duo for hazardous duty. It's a way for an unlovable man to get love...
...What a majestic sight," he said to himself as he counted the vessels lined up in Battleship Row in the dawn's early light. He pulled the trigger on his flare gun. That was supposed to signal the slow-moving torpedo bombers to take advantage of the surprise and strike first. But Fuchida's fighter pilots missed his signal to provide cover, so he fired again for the dive bombers to begin, and then the Japanese all attacked at once. Even when they made mistakes, it seemed that nothing could go wrong...
...cost of rising delinquencies. But President ) Bush last week urged bankers to reduce their rates. Not to be outdone, the Senate voted 74 to 19 to put a cap on credit-card rates under a formula that would lower the current level to 14%. That move may have helped trigger Friday's stock-market plunge by threatening to cut the profits of America's already ailing banks...
...refried machismo" and "woman bashing." The actor rejects the charge. "To some Latin people, we're not allowed to mock ourselves," he says. "I'm supposed to be doing the Bill Cosby-Brady Bunch syndrome." Leguizamo acknowledges, however, that his unflinching portrayals of Latin lowlifes, louts and losers can trigger a painful catharsis. "Latin culture is very subliminal. There's still a lot of self-hate. It's underneath this mat and rug hidden in the basement, and it's the beast that wants to come out and chop our heads off. I'm letting out a lot of monsters...
...proposal sought to close a loophole in an existing law on semiautomatic weapons, those rapid-fire guns that require a single squeeze of the trigger for every round discharged. In 1989, two months after a deranged man with a semiautomatic murdered five children at a Stockton, Calif., elementary school, President Bush was persuaded to place a ban on the importation of all such foreign-made weapons. But the edict was virtually meaningless, since the vast majority of "semis" purchased in the U.S. are manufactured at home...