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Barnett’s second point also dealt with the powers delegated to the states and the federal government in the Constitution...
JOHNNY CASH His was not the rocker's shriek but the dark, deep voice of a man counting out his demons and his losses with the stoicism of a poker player dealt a bum hand. A look at his legacy...
...immediate, so dark and deep. Rarely, before or since, has a voice also shown the grit to express, endure and outlive that misery. His songs played like confessions on a deathbed or death row, but he delivered them with the plangent stoicism of a world-class poker player dealt a bum hand...
...artist, had the strength to see that bad times may be not a curse but a challenge. His biggest pop hit, the Shel Silverstein song A Boy Named Sue, might be considered comic frivolity for a man whose voice and choice of material more typically dealt in darkness. But the story of a man searching out the father who gave him a girl's name has its own Cashian moral. At the end of a brutal brawl, the father mutters, "You oughta thank me before I die/For the gravel in your guts and the spit in your eye/ 'Cause...
...There's no question that the U.S. onslaught against al-Qaeda that began in Afghanistan in October of 2001 has dealt the organization some painful blows. President Bush noted, in his address to the nation on Sunday, that up to two thirds of the "known leadership of al-Qaeda" has been captured or killed. Its training camps in Afghanistan have been destroyed and the relentless worldwide campaign to target al-Qaeda has denied it new sanctuaries; cooperation between the U.S. and Europe and the intelligence services of the Arab and Muslim world has netted or eliminated many key operatives...