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Springsteen has made provocative albums before, channeling the grievances and yearnings of Vietnam vets and drifters. But with The Rising, released near the Sept. 11 anniversary, he stuck to what we could all agree on: a feeling of sadness and a yearning for hope. Maybe because of the latter, The Rising's music can be oddly cheery--Empty Sky and Lonesome Day are awfully toe tapping for songs of mourning--as Springsteen keeps circling back to one central image: the clear blue sky over the Eastern seaboard on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. The Rising is poignant, even wrenching...
Cheney, who avoided military service in Vietnam with education and then marriage deferments, arrived in Washington for the first time in 1968 as a University of Wisconsin graduate student on a fellowship. His patron, Wisconsin Congressman Bill Steiger, sent Cheney on a fact-finding mission to university campuses that had experienced violent anti - Vietnam war protests. As Cheney told the New Yorker in 2001, it was while he was attending a faculty meeting at his own school that he realized he no longer wanted to finish his Ph.D. and become a professor. The faculty members, he thought, were full...
...real chance of one day becoming Speaker. But when President Bush in 1989 asked him to be Secretary of Defense instead, he leaped at the offer. Even when he was in the House, Cheney displayed a strong bent - atypical in that chamber - for Executive privilege. In the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, Congress had moved aggressively to trim back presidential powers and expand its own. Cheney was opposed. In 1987 he was the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra affair, which concluded that Ronald Reagan had overstepped his powers as President. Cheney's minority report...
DIED. THEODORE SHACKLEY, 75, the mysterious CIA operative known as the Blond Ghost; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. In a 28-year career he saw undercover duty in many cold war hot spots (West Berlin, Laos, Vietnam) and was the subject of the 1994 book Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades...
...ARRESTED. WANG BINGZHANG, 54, U.S.-based Chinese dissident who disappeared in June with two other pro-democracy activists while in Vietnam; for spying for Taiwan and partaking in "terrorist activities"; in Beijing. China's Xinhua news agency said the trio were "rescued" in July after being abducted by an unidentified group, but the U.S.-based Free China Movement believes they were captured by Chinese agents...