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...Bush has called his destiny and life's purpose is also his terrible burden--and it helped explain the White House reluctance to have him rally the nation on a daily basis. At some point his repetition of how we will smoke out the Evil One will lose its blunt impact, if it hasn't done so already. In his speech to business leaders, he offered assurances without argument or evidence. "The culture in our agencies has changed," he claimed, even though just 48 hours before, the scientists and sleuths had been pointing fingers at one another...
...message in the internal memorandum that House Republican conference chairman J.C. Watts circulated among his G.O.P. colleagues last week was blunt: America is paying attention now, and it's time to get serious. G.O.P. polls show voters care less about what their parties stand for than whether they can make them feel safe. "Equally true is that Americans are going to be tough in their assessment of Republicans and Democrats alike, and they will be critical in their reviews," wrote Watts...
...point in a merciless war. Last week Rumsfeld acknowledged as much when he defended the military's use of flesh-shredding cluster bombs on Taliban trenches. "They are being used on front-line al-Qaeda and Taliban troops," he explained, "to try to kill them." Americans rarely hear so blunt a sales pitch. From here on in, they'd better get used...
...other major subplot involves Blunt, an Englishman who hopes to find the women of Naples more responsive to his charms than those of his homeland. Caleb L. Rabinowitz ’05 does a fine job with the tricky part, which requires him to act as comic relief most of the time but to communicate genuine emotion at a few key turns...
...sponsored by Rep. Don Young, takes a big step away from total federal control. The GOP version maintains a commitment to sky marshals and to stricter employment screening of airport employees, but allows airports to either hire federal workers or hire security jobs out to private contractors. Young is blunt in his opposition to the Senate version. "If people think there will be a change (if workers are federalized), they're smoking pot," he told reporters this week...