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...held campaign-strategy retreats-and then staged a nifty little minuet, reversing styles in an attempt to broaden their appeal. Kerry attempted anger. At a house party in Concord on Tuesday, he said he was "angry" no fewer than seven times and added that if Bush is to be beaten, "We're going to have to get up off our asses and work." I think I gasped. On Thursday, he took a roundhouse swing at Bush over Iraq: "It's been days since the President was flown to an aircraft carrier"-note the passive tense-"to announce that hostilities...
...them into erotically charged sadomasochistic motion. This will please the young-male audience. The fact that such good guys as the movie presents are hunky, passive wusses will please their dates. So will the fact that the bad guys--who are legion and perpetually sneering--manifestly deserve to be beaten senseless in variously artful ways...
...prefer to cling to the legend of a heroic general who, after enduring the heat of battle, was inspired to write a bugle call to honor his soldiers’ feats. The melody certainly has the somber yet proud ring of a composer who had been bruised but not beaten. Even when played at funerals today, it is not a completely mournful tune. The way the notes dip down in the second to last set of “da, da, da,” only to come back up and end with the same three notes with...
...class valedictorian, filled in for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who canceled because the date changed--or as Sandler put it, because he came down with "a wicked bad case of a fake tummy ache." Sandler himself was never a valedictorian. "I came very close," he said, "but was narrowly beaten by 622 other students...
...comes as a nasty shock to Chinese publications, which were being granted greater latitude by leaders anxious to atone for having concealed the extent of the SARS crisis. In recent weeks, newspapers have called for more oversight of political leaders and exposed the case of a young graphic designer beaten to death in police custody. But the Beijing New Times, apparently stepped over the line with a commentary called "China's Seven Disgusting Things," which accused the National People's Congress of being undemocratic and asked, "who elected these delegates...