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These kids are going to get a very brutal wake-up call someday and the results ain't gonna be pretty at all. In fact, we're already seeing the results of some of this stuff. Some of these people I see coming out of college now just can't believe it when they're told something is merely "good," because they've been told they're nothing less than fantastic all the time since birth … and heaven forbid if they hear something they do truly isn't even "good," but "not so good," to "bad" or even "horrible." .
March Madness, or The Chuck Hagel Show
And then came the magical moment. Chuck Hagel on March 12, 2007: "I'm here today to announce that my family and I will make a decision on my political future later this year." Talk about flashbacks! It reminded many of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, or President Reagan's demand that Mikhail Gorbachev "tear down that wall." Dramatic stuff. OK, so maybe I'm just having fun with Hagel's speech, but given what everyone was led to believe, it was really a surreal event that left more questions than it answered. Chuck Hagel has become the conservative Republican Washington loves to love, like Arizona Sen. John McCain was in 2000 (Hagel supported him back then), because he breaks from GOP orthodoxy from time-to-time. And by "time-to-time," it's really about a single issue: the war in Iraq.
Kearsarge strike group heading back to Va.
The USS Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group and its 6,000 sailors and Marines are sailing back to Virginia. The Norfolk-based amphibious assault ship and its strike group have been on a nearly six-month deployment. Part of Kearsarge's deployment included helping cyclone victims in Bangladesh. The Navy announced Tuesday the USS Porter, a guided-missile destroyer, and the Carr, a guided-missile cruiser, will return Friday to Norfolk. The Ponce, an amphibious transport dock ship, and the Gunston Hall, a dock landing ship from Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, will pull in next Tuesday. The Kearsarge is scheduled to arrive pierside on February 1st. .
Edwards wins in California NASCAR race
Maybe another practice session would have helped,'' Johnson added, referring to all the track time lost to rain Friday and Saturday. ``I think it would have helped the whole field.''About 25,000 fans, far short of the approximate 120,000 capacity, showed up Monday, with the sun peeking out from high clouds and temperatures moving into the high 60s.The drivers spent most of Sunday waiting through rain, track drying and attempts to stop water seeping through seams of the track. The race finally began about 2½ hours late, followed by a rain delay of just more than an hour and then a five-hour wait after a downpour. NASCAR and track officials finally gave up after 11 p.m. and postponed the conclusion until Monday.Accidents during Sunday's 87 laps involved Dale Earnhardt Jr., Casey Mears, Sam Hornish Jr., Reed Sorenson and Denny Hamlin.
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