Special Report
Alert To What?
Reid Collins | 10.11.02
To an invisible chunk of lead the size of a 22-caliber bullet traveling at supersonic speed?
To an invisible chunk of lead the size of a 22-caliber bullet traveling at supersonic speed?
No one has seen The Sniper face to face. Eyewitness accounts are very sketchy at best, and pretty much nonexistent. Yet the assumption that a white man is responsible seems reasonable.
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For parents of small children, it’s a tale of endless frustration.
Blue comes through (sort of) for Bowles. Leahy pushes Strom over the side. Also: Midas Bush.
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Then there are the Democrats, who will try to change the subject to the economy, though they have nothing to say about it that is true.
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How dangerous are the V-22 Osprey and Stryker to our fighting men? A special exchange. Plus: California post-debate downers.
There is no excuse for sending our men into combat with tools of war work that don’t work, or are more dangerous to our people than they are to the enemy.
They can carp against Bush to their heart’s content, but in the end every Senate Democratic presidential hopeful ends up backing war in Iraq.
Sucker punches from Gray Davis highlight his anticlimatic showdown with Bill Simon.
What happens when negative and positive group rights collide? Free speech goes by the wayside.
Mick Jagger hard at work on the Satisfaction urge.
Al’s Iowa fall. Also: Trent leads new cheers. Plus: Looming doomsdays.
What was an L.A. jury smoking when it awarded a lung cancer patient the keys to Fort Knox?
Anyplace except New York or Washington.
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