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| Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:00:00 EST The Misty Pilots |
| Nearly 40 years ago, the Air Force headquarters in Saigon formed a top-secret unit called Commando Sabre—radio call sign "Misty"—that flew risky, often terrifying missions over North Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh Trail in two-man F-100 jet fighters, scouring the terrain for targets. The Misty pilots had no laser targeting pods or smart bombs or night vision goggles, yet they developed many of the tactics the Air Force still uses today over Iraq, Afghanistan, and other hot spots. For their contribution to aerial warfare, the Mistys paid a price—of 157 pilots who served in the unit, 34 were shot down, some twice. Many were saved in spectacular rescues. Four were captured and imprisoned in Hanoi. Seven were lost and listed as missing, then ultimately declared kia: killed in action. This is the story of one. |
| Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:00:00 EST Legally blind: A dogsledder's tales |
| On a day when the temperature in Washington, D.C., didn't reach 40 degrees, Rachael Scdoris showed up at our offices without a jacket. She should be used to the cold. At 21, Scdoris is one of the youngest people ever to have competed in the Iditarod, the grueling 1,200-mile dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome. Oh—and she was born with congenital achromatopsia, a disorder that makes her colorblind, extremely sensitive to light, and legally blind. In her memoir No End in Sight, cowritten with family friend Rick Steber, she writes about sledding without full sight. |
| Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Faith, in its place |
| Has America anything to learn from the violent reactions to those Danish cartoons? We are proud of our tradition of freedom but expect it to be exercised responsibly: There has been a remarkable degree of acknowledgment here that the cartoons were insensitive, matched by shock at the viciousness of the rioting and the rabid level of intolerance. Even Muslim journalists in Jordan and Yemen who published the cartoons so as to condemn both them and the incitement and overreaction now face trial. Ominously, that's because the authorities in these Islamic societies are fearful of losing ground to the extremists. This confluence of religion and politics can be malign. |
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| Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:23:37 EST Poll: Optimism for New Orleans shows a split by race |
| Black residents of New Orleans were hit harder than their white counterparts by Hurricane Katrina, but they were also more likely to express optimism about the city's future, according to a poll released Monday. As for Mardi Gras, 26 percent said they preferred a more low-key affair. Along racial lines, 58 percent of white residents said Mardi Gras should be the same as previous years, compared with 37 percent of black residents. |
| Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:42:23 EST Sen. Clinton: Republican planner obsesses about me |
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| Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:08:36 EST U.S. ambassador: Iraqis think abducted American alive |
| Iraqi officials believe kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll is alive and they are working toward her release, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Monday. The latest in a series of apparent deadlines set by kidnappers holding Carroll passed Sunday with no word on her fate. Her abductors, a group calling itself Brigades of Vengeance, have said they will kill Carroll if the United States does not release all women it has detained in Iraq. |
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