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...Avenue. First, he wrote a frank memo about the war on terrorism that was at odds with much of the Administration's public spin for the past several months. Then he alienated the one person, apart from Bush, on whom the Pentagon most relies for sustenance--Virginia Senator John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. A former Navy Secretary, Warner went to the Senate floor to complain that Rumsfeld had in effect ignored his request for an investigation into Lieut. General William "Jerry" Boykin, a top Army officer in the war on terrorism, who had been preaching anti...
...Warner and Rumsfeld tried to patch things up later over sandwiches at Rumsfeld's office. But what's really eating Republicans isn't just Rumsfeld's manners; it's his war. It was Rumsfeld who ordered his reluctant generals to keep the U.S. invasion force relatively small last winter in order to shorten the war--though that has left the U.S. with what many believe is an occupying army too small to pacify, disarm and rebuild the fractured Iraqi nation. Five Americans died in combat last week, and the Baghdad hotel where Rumsfeld's deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, was staying came...
...Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics (Warner Brothers) 4 Stars It’s been 23 years and 12 LPs since the formation of cult favorites the Flaming Lips, and they now beg the question: will they ever disband? They’ve survived the departure of countless musicians, the Death Cabesque threat of overexposure after a Beverly Hills 90210 cameo, and the ignominy of touring as second-fiddle to an up-and-coming Beck. Not to mention heavy drug use, which nearly resulted in the loss of drummer Steven Drozd’s hand. Surely much...
...Indeed, every network and Internet portal is scrambling to get online. Last month, Warner Bros. Television and AOL launched In2TV, an ad-supported streaming video service offering hundreds of vintage shows online, with upcoming plans for paid downloads as well as original webisodes from Punk'd creator Ashton Kutcher and Survivor producer Mark Burnett. CBS has been streaming NCAA basketball games, while also selling CSI and other shows on Google. NBC has become a major content provider to iTunes, and previewed The Office on MySpace before the show hit traditional airwaves...
...Democrats Club invited Bayh to speak at the school less than a week after fellow presidential hopeful Mark Warner, a former governor of Virginia, spoke to several student groups on the Harvard campus...