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...Crash Course in Safety I couldn't help being amused by Kay Johnson's article "Postcard: Hanoi," which reminded me of my first experience visiting Ho Chi Minh City [Dec. 17]. My entire time there centered on trying to figure out ways to cross the streets with few regulated crosswalks and with often-ignored traffic lights. On more than one occasion, I tried to get up the nerve to step out into the oncoming sea of scooters; a kind Vietnamese would take my hand and lead me across, and on the other side, we both would laugh, knowing that...
...Klein's article about the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report on the Iranian nuclear program and President George W. Bush's response to it was quite disturbing [Dec. 17]. Before the NIE findings, how close did Bush push us into yet another military engagement? When Bush talks about winning in Iraq, what is it that we will have won? Will it be worth our military losses of more than 3,800 Americans killed and thousands more maimed or mentally affected? The NIE report is a reminder of Bush's disconnect with the reality that we Americans are forced to live...
...basketball team closed out 2007 in heartbreaking fashion, falling to UC Irvine (5-8), 80-77, in overtime Sunday afternoon at Lavietes Pavillion. It was the seventh consecutive loss for the Crimson (4-11). Harvard, which still has not won since its memorable upset of Michigan on Dec. 1, blew an 18-point lead in the second half of its final tune-up before kicking off its Ivy League slate at home versus Dartmouth on Saturday. “It’s a tough, crushing loss,” coach Tommy Amaker said. The Crimson took...
...presidential hopefuls have paraded a Who's Who of Hollywood celebrities through the state - from Oprah Winfrey to Kevin Bacon and Tim Robbins - hoping to draw crowds and make their case. Iowans have delighted in getting the rare glimpse of a favorite star or scoring an autograph, but come Dec. 31, three nights before the caucuses, the star wattage will have dimmed and most candidates will be earnestly glad-handing, rather than gamboling about...
...which I thought it was a little bit ridiculous to talk about, the report came out at 10 in the morning and it was like five in the afternoon. [Editor's note: The National Intelligence Estimate report stating that Iran was not pursuing nuclear weapons came out Monday Dec. 3. Huckabee was first asked about it in the evening of Dec. 4] Most of the reporters in that room had been with me all day. They knew where I was. And they knew that there hadn't really been an opportunity for a whole lot of discussion. We learned...