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...wingnuts used Connecticut as a rationale for continuing to wave the bloody shirt of Islamist terrorism as a partisan bludgeon. Vice President Dick Cheney, the nation's wingnut in chief, actually said Lieberman's defeat would give aid and comfort to our terrorist "adversaries and al-Qaeda types." On the other side, Eli Pariser, the executive director of MoveOn.org and therefore, perhaps, the nation's blognut in chief, proposed the "death of triangulation"-that is, the end of Clintonian moderation-in a Washington Post Op-Ed piece and announced a return to ... well, the party's stupid excesses...
...Golden Age of the '30s and '40s, the industry was often accused of escapism. And certainly the films in Hollywood's war effort portrayed the conflict in terms and tones that would comfort as much as enlighten the audience. A neutral eye might see them as propaganda. But there was no neutrality in movie theaters. So the Germans were painted as sadistic dandies, the Japanese as deranged barbarians. And the American GIs, in a platoon of varied ethnicities (all white - this was before the integration of the Army), were steely men of purpose, risking their lives, sometimes dying, to defend...
...circumstances like these, your elders and betters usually advise you to get a hobby. About a year ago, I picked one: cooking. At the TIME house, photographer Franco Pagetti and I take turns making dinner. He tends to craft simple, but superb, comfort food. I prefer exotic, complicated recipes that take hours to make - the better to while away the time. The cooking bit is easy enough, but shopping for ingredients can be life-threatening. And not just for foreigners: markets are a favorite target of suicide bombers, and hundreds of Iraqis have been killed while buying groceries and vegetables...
...sees them on the road for six months at a time, the only place they now think of as home is their son's property at Australind, near Bunbury, 2,000 km down the road. "This beach area hasn't changed at all," says Wilson, fishing from the comfort of a deck chair. Wilson was a regular visitor to this beach when he worked at Newman's iron ore mine. Born in Wigan, England, he came to Australia in 1969. "But you definitely now see more people on the road around here." On the way north to Broome, the beaches...
...example, in 2000, Hizballah captured three soldiers. For two to three years, we didn't know if they were alive or dead. I contacted the soldiers' families to comfort them and be an example that a person could survive that situation. What we didn't know was that those soldiers had already been killed...