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...does not provide it. But Cheney didn’t refute the claim at all. Instead, he pointed out that Kerry voted against an appropriation of $87 billion requested by the president for the Iraq effort, giving the impression that the lack of equipment was Kerry’s fault. Cheney correctly gambled that no one would ask about the implications of the context—the fact that, as he noted, the bill passed anyway. Reporters had no time to ask the question begged by the context: Why, if Bush got his Iraq money, do the troops still...
...foul odor in the facility. “And now I’ve got to explain that the smell was in there before I went in there,” Degeneres says. “Does that ever happen to you? It’s not your fault...
...film feels less like the well-crafted whodunit at its center and more like a freshman acting class: Penn thrashes and grimaces, Tim Robbins acts numb, and Marcia Gay Harden wobbles her voice so much that you wonder if she’s standing on the San Andreas Fault. On the other hand, Kevin Bacon does some of the best work of his career as a reasonable cop beset by marriage problems. He strikes a note of casual verisimilitude and, in an Eastwood film, that’s about the only note that’ll work...
According to Kiernan, that is one of a few studied differences. “We find fault with lots of things that the final clubs do and don’t want to emulate them completely,” he says...
...Kerry's personal heroism in Vietnam; we may not know where the snipers are today, but we know he had the guts to run toward one 35 years ago. As he makes his own kind of strength a virtue, however, he must somehow try to make Bush's a fault: the President may indeed be a strong leader who knows where he wants to take the country, Kerry can concede, but if he's heading for a cliff, then all that strength only increases the risk. --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr., John F. Dickerson and Douglas Waller/Washington