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...defense is championing a rigorous jury selection, after a failed??attempt to move the trial to western Massachusetts for fear of a biased jury in Cambridge...
...couple of months ago, a friend complained that my columns were too focused on AIDS. He told me to mix it up more. Well, I’ve tried, and I’ve failed??the Bush administration’s recent efforts to block access to cheap generic AIDS medications are simply too shameless to ignore. But I don’t want to pigeonhole this story as just an “AIDS” issue. Think of it as the ultimate Bush administration case study: an inside look at how a cynical White House policy...
Well, perhaps “failed?? is too harsh of a word. Like many of you out there, I had my moments of athletic glory in high school. I dabbled in multiple sports and spent two years starting for the varsity lacrosse team. Athletics gave me highs, it gave me lows and it basically dominated my non-academic life...
...under the Bush administration. In previous administrations the Secretary of State has negotiated the path set by the President, divining a clear path through diplomatic entanglement. The Secretary of Defense, on the other hand, has quietly plotted for worst case scenarios, taking the fore only when all else had failed??much as Rumsfeld had when he was the 13th and not the 21st Secretary of Defense. Under the Bush administration these two roles have been reversed. As a result, since Sept. 11, it has been Rumsfeld who has not only divined the course but in many cases preempted...
...book’s end. The dust-jacket has a red, white and blue color scheme, and after a history of literature’s decline and fall in America—culminating in the judgment that with Camp’s advent, “literature had then failed??—he writes, “Nothing less than a fresh vision of the ongoing and conceivably climactic war between God and the Devil can slake our moral thirst now that we have passed through the incomprehensibilities of the last century...