Monthly Archive: July 2003

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Zooming!

So getting the new BARTSFO from my place to the airport takes around 25 minutes and costs $4.60. In the last 18 months, cab fares have risen from around $25 to $35, and they...

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All Not Quiet on the Home Front

Military families, so often the ones to put a cheery face on war, are growing vocal … Frustrations became so bad recently at Fort Stewart, Ga., that a colonel, meeting with 800 seething spouses,...

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Passing the Buck

President Bush skipped quickly past the niceties and went straight to his chief political obsession: Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Turning to his Baghdad proconsul, Paul Bremer, Bush asked, “Are you in...

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Traffic Control

On March 30, a car races through a roadblock in north central Iraq, producing a massive burst of weapons fire from Recon’s Charlie Company. Protracted screeching of tires. Unarmed men run from the car,...