L'Affaire Balloon Boy

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Now, a few days and countless hours of television face time later, he's just as earnestly trying to save his face and cover his butt.
If the Front Range's ill-fated "balloon ride" were a screenplay, it would have been a remake of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World."
Gen. Ray Odierno, head of multinational forces in Iraq, on progress there and plans for Afghanistan.