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...President George W. Bush in a commencement address early this month at West Point. Surveying the post-Sept. 11 world, Bush said that "if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long...We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." The speech, wrote Peter Riddell, a sober columnist for the London Times, "signaled the most far-reaching shift in American foreign policy for more than 50 years...
...symbolic death. "The Falling Soldier, authentic or fake, is ultimately a record of Capa's political bias and idealism," he writes, adding: "Indeed, he would soon come to experience the brutalizing insanity and death of illusions that all witnesses who get close enough to the 'romance' of war inevitably confront." In 1946, after more than a decade of front-line reporting, says Kershaw, "Capa had started to exhibit many of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder: restlessness, heavy drinking, irritability, depression, survivor's guilt, lack of direction and barely concealed nihilism." He fulfilled a dream in 1947, though...
...President George W. Bush in a commencement address early this month at West Point. Surveying the post-Sept. 11 world, Bush said that "if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long ... We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge." The speech, wrote Peter Riddell, a sober columnist for the London Times, "signaled the most far-reaching shift in American foreign policy for more than 50 years...
...makes your parents' aging even more evident." In a study she conducted of 2,000 middle-aged daughters and healthy, aging mothers, she found that the daughters were more worried than necessary, often to the annoyance of their mothers. To help their parents, Fingerman urges, "kids need to confront their own emotions. Recognize that you're not just worried about your parent; you're worried about losing your parent, which is your worry...
When the Israelis stormed Arafat's headquarters last week, they harbored no expectation that the incursion would provoke him to confront terrorism. Rather, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon hopes that harassing Arafat will diminish his status, persuading other Palestinians and the world that he is no longer a relevant power. Sharon thinks Arafat is beyond redemption. He has made clear that his preference would be to kill or exile him. However, he promised President Bush he would not do the former, and he feels bound by the pledge, even though, by his own account, he regrets making it. Last week, continuing...