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...primaries has all but disappeared. While the race remains very tight in most polls, some showed Kerry's unfavorable ratings climbing 10 points in the weeks since he secured the nomination. In a Los Angeles Times poll that asked who was the stronger leader, 46% picked Bush; 38% chose Kerry...
...first glance it’s hard to believe that this Converse-clad young man, face slightly unshaven and glasses perched, is the driver behind the wheel of the much-hyped indie. Hoge certainly chose a doosy for his first major foray into directing and writing, but as he sits down and begins to talk, it becomes apparent that he knew exactly what he was getting into. Having taught for a couple years in a juvenile hall system in Los Angeles, Hoge could base the movie’s titular protagonist on kids he knew personally...
While at Harvard, Golden chose not to write for The Crimson, but spent his summers working at a local newspaper in his hometown of Amherst, Mass...
...Bush administration chose force over genuine diplomacy in Iraq, but so far the more tangible threat in the Korean peninsula has prompted it to go to the other extreme: a lot of talk and no action. Of course, war with a state that possesses nuclear weapons and a military of over 1.2 million soldiers is a grisly option; military intervention in North Korea should be avoided at almost any cost. Yet to do nothing while North Korea transforms itself into a nuclear Wal-Mart would be equally reckless. So would bribing the regime into disarmament with promises of economic aid?...
...apology illuminated the course the White House chose not to take. The President had already admitted to Bob Woodward that he "didn't feel that sense of urgency" about al-Qaeda prior to 9/11. If Bush had said last week that he was new to the job, that his interests were in other areas and that an attack on the scale of 9/11 was unimaginable, he would have received the benefit of the doubt. Instead, he chose cynicism and pettiness--a response that, in biblical times, brings down not only the wrath of prophets but an occasional plague of locusts...