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...know the way," Frodo Baggins, the unlikely hero of The Lord of the Rings, declares of his mission to destroy the fateful ring of J.R.R. Tolkien's imagination. In the cinematic epic that gave us the artistic exclamation point to 2003, Frodo spoke for many. This was surely the year in which we ambled hopefully, foolishly, gamely into the dark. Some would like to ascribe the many human failings of the year to willful deception. Bush lied! But cover-ups are not as common in human history as screw-ups. This was, rather, a year in which...
Where, after all, are the prizes that the West's Mesopotamian adventure was designed to find? The weapons of mass destruction--the thousands of tons of unaccounted-for anthrax and botulinum toxins and all the other deadly weapons we were fighting to destroy in Iraq--have not yet been found. Yes, a great deal of Saddam's WMD infrastructure is there, and his record of deploying them is a matter of history. But the weapons themselves? We haven't found them after months of looking. Bush's fault? If it was, then the fault was shared by almost every Democrat...
...switched it on. Outside Wazir's house, nine children were shooting marbles in the dirt. Around 10:30 a.m., villagers saw the Warthog circle once over the house, vanish behind a mountain and come roaring back, firing what villagers said were 35 explosive rounds. Each was powerful enough to destroy a tank. The children were in the pilot's field of attack. There was little left of them except the marbles, a few shredded prayer caps and small pools of blood...
...Cuban officials concerned that an American influx would mean a quick end to the Castro era. Says Rafael Dausa, head of the Cuban Foreign Ministry's U.S. relations office: "An invasion of Americans will not destroy our revolution. We're here because of the strength of our ideas." If anyone's views are changed by the meeting of the two peoples, he believes, it will be the Americans'. "They'll find out we don't have horns or eat children," he says...
...into harsh light. ?How interesting a pair of hands can be,? Marlow muses, as Cliff sits petrified. ?They can trick a melody out of a keyboard. They can mold beauty out of a piece of common clay... Yet the same pair of hands can do terrible evil. They can destroy, torture, even kill.? He glares at Cliff and takes off his scarf...