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...decision to take on relatively weak Iraq and leave North Korea and Iran undeterred sends a message to dictators everywhere: Get yourselves a nuke, and we won't bother...
...civic duty. Police chief John Thomas says at least 80% of his e-mail has been supportive. Fred Simonin, owner of the Highland Grill, where residents go to get Krispy Kreme doughnuts and pizza, readily complied, accepting a swab as he stood behind his counter. "Does it bother me? No. I don't plan on raping or killing anyone," says Simonin, in his orange Truro baseball...
...bother to ask. The movie is not going to tell. It will just sail along serenely, trusting in its unfailing good nature to ease us into an eager suspension of disbelief. And you know what? It works. Writer-director Paul Weitz (who with his brother Paul directed the equally agreeable About a Boy) is a clever guy, with an ability to bring his characters to the edge of rotten behavior and then let their better natures rescue them...
...anything, social conservatives don't realize the full depth of blue-state America's condescension. They assume that liberals sit around all day thinking about how much smarter or more sophisticated or more enlightened they are than social conservatives. Truth be told, most of the time liberals don't bother to think about social conservatives at all. Except at election time, when they suddenly become aware of them as some frightening, incomprehensible menace to their otherwise comfortably progressive society...
...alphabetical mass email made me want to vote for Glazer-Capp, or Moore-Nichols, as much as it made me feel like an important, individual part of the Harvard community. I’m surprised campaigns didn’t pick up on this “bother factor,” especially since multiple freshman rooms in Weld Hall had signs promising to vote for the candidates that knocked on their doors the least. Looking at the tallies on the white boards outside these rooms, Moore-Nichols was doing the best, with only one visit. Glazer-Capp...