Word: wars
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...military affairs but also of a commitment to shore up health-care and other benefits for this group. Even among veterans, who should know about McCain's POW struggle, though, the candidate has had to work just to introduce himself. At an August rally, Cliff Fagan, a Korean War veteran who had been invited by a local politician to hear the Arizona Senator, wasn't clear about him. "Was he a military man?" he asked. Yes, and one who has a long campaign ahead...
...fighting men of the Civil War, whether Blue or Gray, are recalled with sympathy, poignancy. They left their homes to fight in someone else's backyard for freedom or tradition. The truth, though, may be closer to the blind, bloody chaos depicted in Ang Lee's severe, handsomely rendered Ride with the Devil. In Border states like Missouri, a young man was at war not only with his brother but with his own best instincts as well...
...Missouri bushwhackers, Jake Roedel (watchful Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich, parading what may be star quality or merely attitude), start out with a few ideals--war's first casualty. They also serially entertain the young widow Sue Lee (Jewel, the singer). They are idiot savants at making war--without flair or even instinct but with an awful proficiency. At making love they are just idiots. They haven't had the example of the movies or even mush literature to teach them courtship. They hide their feelings as clumsily as they express them. "So, do you want...
Evidence is piling up that OSAMA BIN LADEN, the Islamic terror leader Washington considers International Enemy No. 1, may have helped spark Russia's latest brutal war in Chechnya. Behind the scenes, U.S. and Russian counterterrorism officials have been sharing intelligence that points to Bin Laden's having an indirect hand in some of the five bombings in Moscow and other Russian cities last August and September. Moscow launched its military offensive to crush Chechen terrorists after those attacks...
...were prepared for what they found two weeks ago. The 73-year-old Teamster legend was ousted from his Philadelphia union after a predawn raid ordered by political foe James P. Hoffa, the newly elected president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who said Morris was preparing for a "war." Teamster officials discovered tractor trailers containing enough shotguns, pistols, stun guns, pepper spray, helmets and ammunition to outfit a small army...