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...entire world. You have a great wife, five wonderful children and 14 grandkids, all of whom give you happiness. You also have two nice houses, many caring friends, a wonderful small staff, and you have Sadie, a fine old dog. You have a lot of fishing rods and a boat. What more would...
...vote teams--these are the people who made the campaign a free-for-all, in the best and the worst senses of the phrase. The candidates churned out position papers that not many people read. But Michael Moore made a movie that a lot of people saw. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth made an ad campaign--a lot of people saw that too. Al Franken pulled up to the microphone. Ann Coulter took up near permanent residence in front of the TV cameras. Now George W. Bush gets four more years. Do the rest of them get four more...
...Vietnam War seemed, at times, to have almost as large a presence in the campaign as the war in Iraq, it may be, at least in part, because of John O'Neill, a Houston lawyer and former swift-boat commander whose feud with Kerry dates back more than 30 years. The first time O'Neill's anger at Kerry surfaced was in 1971, when the fellow naval officers debated the Vietnam War on The Dick Cavett Show, with Kerry speaking out against the war and O'Neill defending it. This time out, O'Neill, 58, and the group he helped...
...four days talking not about Iraq but about Vietnam. This glaring non sequitur gave Kerry the distinction of having a convention with no bounce. Even worse, by gratuitously bringing up Vietnam, a still bleeding psychic wound, Kerry opened himself to weeks of politically damaging attack from embittered fellow swift-boat veterans...
...cities such as Minneapolis and Seattle, and children's playwrights began to tackle more serious social issues, from adjusting to a stepmother (Suzan Zeder's Step on a Crack) to the Holocaust (James Still's And Then They Came for Me). A landmark play like The Yellow Boat--which David Saar, who runs the enterprising Childsplaytheater in Tempe, based on the death of his son, a hemophiliac, from AIDS at age 8--is as theatrically bold and emotionally wrenching as any recent American drama...