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While Kerry displayed prescient insight into the terrorist threat years ago, Bush is stuck in a pre-9/11 mentality that was unwise then and is shockingly obtuse in the wake of the terrorist attacks. What emerges from the president’s record on security is a persistent attention gap: time and again, on issues that should be no-brainers after September 11, the administration dropped the ball...
...continue to adapt their tactics, adding TNT to their IEDs, for instance, to make them more lethal. In Ramadi they have begun attacking more at night; in Fallujah they have dug into defensive positions. A U.S. military battle-planning officer in Fallujah says the raid left a "big intel wake," information that will be useful later, he says, when the military moves to retake the city. No one can say when that will be. Corpsman Scott Pribble, a Navy medic with the 3/5, had said before last week's operation that he hoped he wouldn't be busy that night...
...then forgets her outside; he takes her to lunch and spends the whole time on his cell phone; and when he reluctantly agrees to watch her sing in a recital, he walks out in the middle of her solo to write down ideas for his new book. In the wake of Etienne's raging narcissism, few come out with their dignity intact. Everyone has an excuse for tolerating the author's boorish behavior: Lolita because she's afraid to stand up to him; Sylvia for the sake of her husband, an up-and-coming writer whom Etienne has taken...
With Princeton’s wide receiving corps in shambles in the wake of B.J. Szymanski’s jump to Major League Baseball—star cornerback Jay McCareins now plays on both sides of the ball in an attempt to compensate—the Crimson defense will key on stopping the run in the hopes that plugging the line of scrimmage will short-circuit the Tigers’ offense...
...That is, until three weeks ago when I did a practice race and got my ass handed to me on a silver platter by Anne Browning ’00 [who is also racing in the Championship Singles event]. That was a bit of a wake-up call. So since then I’ve been training more than I planned to, but still not all-out,” Davies said...