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...slowing down. He’s currently producing two films in development, and though tight-lipped about both, he did reveal a couple of details about one of them. The film, planned for 2007, is based on the story of Hunter Scott, a student whose school project on the USS Indianapolis sparked a Congressional review of the disaster and the eventual exoneration of the ship’s captain. Moore has also recently branched out into directing with a film called “The Killers.” “It’s a thriller about...
...trip to Japan, which began on Feb. 20 and ends Feb. 22, that's exactly that he was tasked with doing: reassuring Tokyo that the U.S.-Japan relationship was still strong. Normally that wouldn't be a difficult mission. And today in a speech on board the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, anchored off Yokosuka Naval Base near Tokyo, Cheney declared, "Relations between our two countries have never been better than they are today." The problem is, that's not quite true...
...Navy, for one, has long understood that it would be virtually impossible to rely solely on Western-owned companies for critical services. It simply couldn?t operate without local firms providing logistics support at the 200 ports its ships visit around the world. After the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, the Navy undertook a wide-scale review of contracting procedures, including those involving ship husbanding. As a result of that review, the Navy took several steps to increase the security of ships in foreign ports, but maintained its system of contracting. ?We've been doing business...
...security. But what if the actual choice is a bit different? What if winning the War on Terror is hurting us in the War on Terrorism? And how, as the questioner asked, do we know when we have won? ?I don't envision a signing ceremony on the USS Missouri.? You could say that every day that goes by without another attack is V.T. day in the War on Terror. But unlike in past wars, that does not mean that the threat has passed, that emergency powers are no longer needed, that we can go back to how things were...
...last time the USS John F. Kennedy was in Boston, in 1997, she attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors who waited for up to seven hours in lines a mile long,” Nunziante noted...