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...recent book, called “The Political Brain,” by Emory University psychology professor Drew Westen argues that the average voter makes his decisions based mostly on emotion and gut feeling, and not on reasoned stances on the issues. Many have commented on the role of anger in the 2006 midterm elections in sweeping the republicans out of office. I believe 2008 will be the year of frustration...
...Obviously, if we turned down countries that are not democracies in the Westen sense, we would eliminate about 90 percent of the developing world," says Perkins. "You have to take a realistic viewpoint...
...precisely time for a rescue, and onto the scene fluttered a re vamped "Silver Angel"-the stubby-winged HU-16 sea-rescue amphibian of Air Force Captain David P. Westen-barger, who had been on patrol 150 miles away when he first heard the radioed cry of "Mayday." Dropping through the cloud layer to 100 ft., West-enbarger saw an oncoming 30-ft. junk spitting machine-gun bullets just short of Huggins. "Dunk that junk," he ordered four fighters circling overhead. As they complied, Westenbarger splashed down near Huggins, taxied between him and the pistol-packing swimmers, pulled the downed...
...Turkey and the Middle East, crucial southern flank of Russia's Drang nach Westen, the U.S. sent its showiest battleship, the 45,000-ton Missouri...
...International Squadron," the second feature on the bill, has some scenes from "Blitzkrieg im Westen," a few airplane action shots of its own, and a pointless love story. The result is a spotty rehash of "A Yank in the R.A.F.," better in some of its air-raid sequences but an inferior job in general. Right now, those bombs don't look fictitious enough...