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...pornography of grief" in hostage-family coverage, and on a talk show he asked Secretary of State George Shultz whether "we are so paralyzed by 40 lives" that our foreign policy was jeopardized. Some word-processor warriors were quite ready to sacrifice the hostages in their eagerness for "bold" retaliatory action, usually unspecified. C.D. Jackson, who served on General Eisenhower's wartime staff, used to call such macho talk "making tiny fists in your pocket...
...Madrid last March 11 [March 21]: I was disappointed by the story's implication that Morocco's policies may exacerbate terrorism. Moroccans continue to be saddened by the March 11 tragedy and share the grief of their Spanish brothers and sisters. The Moroccan government has embarked on a bold social, political and economic reform program to enhance freedom and opportunity. Last year King Mohammed VI addressed a council of religious scholars and announced a plan to revamp the domain of religious affairs to shield Morocco from the perils of extremism and retain Morocco's tradition as a country of moderation...
...Harvard Book Store-sponsored talk at the Brattle Theatre on April 1, McEwan placed the book in a long line of such novels-in-a-day, mentioning—among others—Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses. These are bold comparisons indeed, and McEwan’s work falls a long way short of both Woolf’s and Joyce’s. In Saturday, McEwan is attempting to paint a very big picture on a very small canvas: a portrait of post-Sept. 11 England on the brink of war with Iraq, conveyed through the daily interactions...
...plot follows the bold Gina Norris (Latifah), who had a brief role in Barbershop 2. In the Atlanta-based Beauty Shop, Norris becomes offended by the comments of boss Jorge Christophe (Kevin Bacon), and leaves his hair salon to open her own beauty shop, accompanied by hair-washer Lynn (Alicia Silverstone...
...once like you, my friends—a young, bold intellectual, full of sarcasm, prone to bitter self-doubt and frequent crises. Then I saw the video for “Evil,” and realized that the puppet protagonist embodied all these intimate emotions...