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...really locked on one particular question: did he murder this person or not?” Ellikan says. “And the fact that he may be a good student who belongs to good organizations and can speak five languages really has nothing to do with did he commit this particular crime...
...beyond the critique to Kerry's plan for fixing Iraq, and you find the following: "First, the president must secure international support. Second, we must commit to a serious effort to train Iraqi security forces. Third, we must carry out a reconstruction plan that brings benefits to the Iraqi people, and fourth, we must take the necessary steps to hold elections next year." It's not hard for President Bush to retort that Kerry is simply demanding something the Bush administration is already trying...
...Mama Wong is the sort of person who gets her way, even in death. (Though she has died horribly of Alzheimer's before the story begins, Mama Wong is never far from Carnegie's mind, usually with choice quotes like this: "If you become cook, your mother will commit suicide. Even I am dead I will rise up out of my grave to kill myself.") From the beginning, Blondie rightly suspects Mama Wong's motives, since the older woman never reconciled herself to the marriage. Has Mama Wong set up Lan to be the love wife, a kind of modern...
...defense systems to Turkey before the invasion of Iraq. So there was an inevitable whiff of irony around French Defense Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie's tour earlier this month of Kosovo and Afghanistan, two hot spots where the alliance is currently active, to affirm France's abiding commitment to NATO. But underneath the irony is real iron: the Minister has solid military facts to flaunt. In Pristina, she attended the formal handover of command of Kosovo's more than 18,000 NATO peacekeepers to French Lieut. General Yves de Kermabon. Then she flew to Kabul to meet troops...
...Never Ending Story, says the film isn't intended to make the Hitler generation feel guilty about the war, but to help younger Germans come to terms with the reality of their past - a reality in which one human being led a nation of other human beings to commit incomprehensible atrocities. "This film is made for my generation, for future generations," he says, "to help find answers...