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...listen to her assessment and be reminded that when TIME says the FBI failed, it means the institution, not the thousands of good, hardworking field agents whose only goal is to serve justice and make our country a safer place. It's time political correctness and careerism took a backseat to doing the right thing, and I commend Rowley for leading the way. LAURA ARMSTRONG Marietta...
...genuinely moved by some of the film's more dramatic scenes. It is this emotional component of Spider-Man's tortured-soul brand of heroism--as he realizes that his loved ones could be put in danger because of his superheroics and that happiness will often take a backseat to his altruism--that makes people identify with the film and want to see it over again. TONY WOLF New York City...
KARACHI In the city where Daniel Pearl was murdered in February, a red Toyota Corolla with a bomb on the backseat pulled up beside a Pakistani bus on May 8 and exploded, killing 14. Authorities suspect the attack was the work of al-Qaeda. It was the third time in four months that foreigners in Pakistan had been murdered...
...when King explodes at his wife Coretta over her complaints about having no life of her own. "Did I tell you to have that baby?" he screams. A few pages later he invites an attractive New York acolyte up to his hotel room. But such salacious details take a backseat to the more important business of the civil rights struggle. Volume one peaks with the Montgomery bus boycott and ends as King gets stabbed during a lunch-counter protest...
...environment since the first Earth Day in 1970." Eric Schaeffer, who recently quit as chief of civil enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency because he believes the White House is undermining the agency's role as watchdog, describes the problem this way: "The EPA is in the backseat, or maybe even riding the bumper, and the energy industry is having a field...