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...will the first female president of the U.S. be like? Very tall. Thus predicts ABC, which cast six-footer Geena Davis as Mackenzie Allen, a Vice President who comes to power when the President dies of a stroke, in the drama Commander in Chief, debuting Sept. 27. That's fair enough. Given the prejudice she would face, the nation might feel safer with a female leader possessed of great height, athleticism (Davis nearly represented the U.S. in Olympic archery) and robust, bee-stung lips. I look forward avidly to the Jolie Administration...
...Homer C. Lamborn Redding, California, U.S. Levels of Barbarism "The New Bin Laden?," your notebook item on Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq [Sept. 5], said that al-Zarqawi's organization "is believed to have been behind barbaric attacks in Iraq." It seems only fair to ask where, on the spectrum of barbarism, we would locate the killing of Iraqi civilians, the razing of Fallujah, the depravity at Abu Ghraib prison and the self-righteous obscenity at Guantánamo Bay? And how about the abandonment of the desperate hurricane victims in Louisiana and Mississippi...
...luncheon included the Achievement Award, a keynote speaker, a recruitment panel, and a career fair...
Before lunch, students mingled with recruiters during the career fair and picked up free water bottles, decks of cards, and highlighters...
...judge has defended his reserve by repeating something like the following—“while I can’t comment on that case because the issue it raises might come before me as a judge, I can assure you I have no agenda and will be fair and open-minded.” And we don’t find such a line to be unreasonable...