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...Judging only from the headlines, Fox’s pro-Iraq war, conservative stance comes through loud and clear. The articles also highlight different aspects of the speech, with Fox focusing on Allawi’s gratefulness to America where CNN notes that the speech was made against a backdrop of growing violence and hostage-taking. There is little overlap throughout the stories. Each outlet mentions different facts, emphasizes different points and even presents the story differently (Fox News put the story at the top of its website with a picture; CNN opted for a simple hyperlinked headline). These...
...wasn’t so much the callous way the Republican Party exploited the city of New York as an emotional backdrop for political gain that disturbed me. It wasn’t so much Sen. Zell Miller’s angry proclamation that to dissent from President Bush in this time of war is tantamount to treason that bothered me. It wasn’t even the smilingly dishonest way Bush rewrote his past three years to relate a satisfying portrait of resolute strength and triumph that was upsetting. It was that the Republicans were so damn good...
...past to the future after Boston and then hammer home Kerry's ideas. That left Bush a huge opening--and he reached for it in New York City. "They made a big bet on his Vietnam service," said Mark Penn, Bill Clinton's longtime pollster. "It was a good backdrop, but it was just that. He didn't really have an agenda coupled with that service...
...homework, reads bedtime stories and spends endless hours chauffeuring her three kids, ages 13, 10 and 6. But she does acknowledge certain aberrations. In her current act, the comedian jokes that one of the videos they all watch together is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. "Against that backdrop," she says, "Mom looks pretty good...
...only for anyone who cares about art but especially for museum officials and gallery owners, who know how vulnerable their treasures are. Nothing could be worse than the thought of a canvas as important as The Scream, Edvard Munch's indelible image of a man howling against the backdrop of a blood-red sky, disappearing into a criminal underworld that doesn't care much about the niceties of art conservation. Art theft is a vast problem around the world. As many as 10,000 precious items of all kinds disappear each year. And for smaller museums in particular...