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...It’s hard to defend that because they don’t even pass anymore,” said junior co-captain back Laura Odorczyk. “They just blast away at the ball. We made sure that we had a body on every one of their forwards...
...issue. Many rabbis argue that it's forbidden for Jews to destroy a synagogue, unless another is being built. The chief rabbi of the army was able to find a rather hair-splitting justification for dismantling the synagogues entirely, which the army went to Israel's High Court to defend. After doing so, the army found itself undermined when Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz backed down and voted against the destruction of the synagogues in the cabinet last weekend. That's why the synagogues remained standing. Despite the shock and anger registered by Israeli political leaders after the burning...
...seems hardest to defend the film from the last group of detractors: those who complain that it panders to the West in the hopes of repeating Lagaan's success abroad. The movie does come with a full load of Orientalist clich?s. There are far too many elephants, dancing girls, and cows walking about, and the British officer gets a suspicious amount of screen time, suggesting that this film was carefully calculated to do well with audiences in Britain and America. But for all its stereotypes and implausibilities, this is a movie worth defending: because if everyone attacks The Rising...
...Bush's basic failure is that he heads the most incompetent Administration in U.S. history, one that makes mistake after mistake without changing course or admitting error. I am a U.S. Marine veteran. I have great respect for those who serve in legitimate conflicts to stop aggression, defend our nation against attack or help others when the decision is based on facts, not deliberate lies. Iraq is not any of those. I was against this war long before it began. I fully believe that peace is patriotic. I will never give my yellow ribbon patriotism to this embarrassing Administration. Ralph...
...appeal from a politician for the votes of citizens. For the first time in Egypt's history, the President faced not a yes-no referendum on his presidency, in which he'd be assured of 99% or so of the tally, but a contest in which he had to defend his record before the citizenry against rival candidates. Mubarak has been hop-scotching around the country, telling crowds, "I stand before you asking for your endorsement." Close on his heels, nine challengers have been giving raucous speeches, sometimes accusing him of tyranny and corruption, strictly taboo accusations less than...