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...Many were suspicious about the Saddam that was on TV Thursday morning. "I don't think it was really him," said Dana Dilshad, who was running a juice shop. "When he speaks he talks out of one side of his mouth, but the man who spoke on TV moved his lips normally." Another guy, Kamel Ahmed, said "I'm suspicious. He's wearing glasses and his complexion is too light. There are three or four Saddam Husseins in Baghdad. There's also a copy of Uday, but he fled because he was afraid...
Each scene’s connections with The Odyssey is also underscored by a computer projection of the corresponding book title. The projections emanate eerily from the captive Son, played with an appropriately contrasting combination of teenage awkwardness and godly grace and wisdom by Dana Marks...
...wanted to live with Manny, but Manny would only block with me if we also blocked with Dana. We put Dana on hold because we were waiting for Tasha to block with us. Some guys on the basketball team also wanted to block with us, so we had to decide. We made the fatal mistake of telling Dana she was on ‘The Waiting List,’ after which she refused to speak to us ever again. Then Tasha and her friends were pissed, so they refused to block with us. And the basketball players? They blocked...
Bush's critics, hearing the word, go ironic. They put evil in quotes and think of Dana Carvey's Church Lady: "Well, isn't that special, Saddam? Who's your little friend? Could it be Satan!!!???" They mock Bush for what they see as a primitive, frightening and atavistic use of a medieval term that should probably be banished from civilized discourse in a multicultural world...
...writer is Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College and a visiting professor in the Department of Government this semester...