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...Many 15- and 16-year-olds [could] be asked and recruited to serve in Iraq in the next couple of years ... They certainly deserve the right to see what is going on." Michael Moore, American filmmaker, appealing against an R rating for his antiwar documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 that bars viewers under...
...showing in 80 years, marring the government's six-month term as E.U. President Italy Small parties left and right gained; those in PM Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government instantly demanded more power Berlusconi's Forza Italia slipped, but rival Romano Prodi's center-left coalition disappointed, too Netherlands Antiwar, pro-reform voters boosted the opposition left and whistle-blower Paul van Buitenen's Transparent Europe bloc PM Jan-Peter Balkenende's center-right coalition suffered for supporting the Iraq war, losing five seats Poland Low turnout handed victory to right-wingers and Euro-skeptic populists whose supporters bothered...
Reagan also discovered that he was an actor. Taken to see a touring antiwar play, Journey's End, he identified strongly with the hero, even began to feel that he was the hero. "Nature was trying to tell me something," he recalled later, "namely that my heart is a ham loaf." He spent much of his time thereafter in student theatricals as well as football and swimming, with only the minimum study necessary to major in economics. Dutch Reagan (his father had bestowed the nickname at birth) emerged into the Depression-stricken America of 1932 and found there were very...
DIED. DAVID DELLINGER, 88, antiwar activist and one of the Chicago Seven tried for inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention; in Montpelier, Vt. Born to privilege, he was drawn to civil disobedience as a student at Yale, where he committed himself to nonviolence after hitting someone after a football game. A former divinity student who was 20 years older than his Chicago Seven comrades, Dellinger organized the 1967 march on the Pentagon depicted in Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night...
...conceivably be enough to swing a state or two in what insiders expect to be another close election. As the news from Iraq gets even worse, Nader--who supports a total withdrawal of U.S. forces in six months--could become the candidate of choice for the most hard-core antiwar voters, who may see little difference between John Kerry's stay-the-course approach and Bush's. "Unlike 2000, Nader now has a single issue that can fuel him," says a worried Democratic official. Party strategists also say they are seeing signs that Nader is drawing some support from...