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The new recruits from Germany possessed an ideal combination of technical skill and knowledge that the original 9/11 operatives, veteran fighters though they were, lacked.
Among the recurring themes: his belief in the primacy of the individual over the group ("[My work] tries to reveal the extent to which each of us is responsible for his own fate") and his intense, conflicted Americanism ("I am too vindictively American, too full of hate for the hateful aspects of this country, and too possessed by the things I love here to be too long away").
"Although getting into the state units was difficult for most others, Bush was soon in the Guard," says the Times . Bush got a "special commission making him an instant second lieutenant" and "was able to jump into the officer ranks without the exceptional credentials many other officer candidates possessed."
This indicates that the geographic distributions of male and female lung cancer SMR differ and are possessed of boundaries whose placement appears independent.
And what could have possessed the movie-makers to cast the topmost of top bananas, Paul Newman, as Costner's dad--a crotchety, albeit caring, voice of wisdom?