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...past few weeks have been especially challenging, starting with the four Americans ambushed, killed and burned beyond recognition in Fallujah. The story was covered extensively on TV and in the newspapers, with many outlets giving prominent display to two dismembered and charred bodies hanging from a bridge. Since that image was so widely seen, I chose a much less familiar one: a group of Iraqis pointing to two victims on the ground absent the frenzied mobs playing to the cameras. By my lights, this photo, with its matter-of-fact air, is as chilling as the scene that received saturation...
...After all the contentiousness about current politics, a celebration of a grand old style. The closing-night party featured a vivid display of fireworks and a lavish concert of Cole Porter songs rendered by the singing stars - Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Natalie Cole, Alanis Morrissette and Sheryl Crow - of the new Porter biography ?De-Lovely.? Cannes 2004 went out on a swellegant, elegant high note...
...slight addition of a few cute road-and-leaf badges on the doors and a pair of subtle vents (to aid the battery's thermal-management system) on the back windows. And there aren't many changes inside--two new gauges on the dash and a fun little display that shows when power transfers between the electric motor and the gasoline engine. A novel feature: a 110-volt socket up front--thanks to the supercharged nickel-metal-hydride battery pack tucked under the cargo area--into which, Ford rep Corey Holter says, I can plug "a laptop, a cell phone...
Journalists can go funny when they become famous. They can get windy and theatrical or display their regular-guy credentials with the subtlety of a gold tooth. Anyone who has watched Tim Russert, host of NBC's Meet the Press, could probably guess there's a Big Russ back in a working-class hometown whispering, "Don't let your head get too big for the doorway." Good son that he is, Russert has followed that advice, asking politicians and world leaders tough questions and then getting out of the way of their answers--and checking with his dad in South...
However, the squad never got the chance, as Tulane’s Jacobo Hernandez held on—after a brief display of nerves—for a 6-4, 6-4 win and an overall Green Wave victory...