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...pleased with the Senator's demeanor and his direct and calm responses, in contrast to President Bush's smirks, scowls and useless sloganeering. Nothing Bush can say will ever convince me that he made a sincere, thoughtful and intellectual assessment of the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Glen Brown Naperville...
...pleased with the Senator's demeanor and his direct and calm responses, in contrast to President Bush's smirks, scowls and useless sloganeering. Nothing Bush can say will ever convince me that he made a sincere, thoughtful and intellectual assessment of the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Glen Brown Naperville, Illinois, U.S. The focus on looks has gone too far in this TV age. Candidates are marketed like laundry detergents or automobiles. The U.S. President is so powerful that he should be chosen in a more dispassionate way - say, by the Congress. What will happen...
...rings and other historical evidence, that the allocation was based on water flows that were the highest they had been for more than 475 years. By contrast, the flows since 1999 rank among the lowest. As a result, Lake Powell, the giant reservoir created on the Colorado by the Glen Canyon Dam, stands some 60% below capacity and seems destined to fall even lower. No wonder that states like Colorado--whose rights to that water are trumped by the rights of California, Nevada and Arizona--are anxiously bracing for a crisis...
DIED. CLAYTON KIRKPATRICK, 89, pioneering editor of the Chicago Tribune; in Glen Ellyn, Ill. When he took over the paper in 1969, Kirkpatrick wrote in an editorial, "No political party should take the Tribune for granted." Under his 10-year reign, the Tribune dropped its partisan Republican stance and became an objective, nationally respected publication...
...works. The contributors are a jaw-dropping list: every single major North American cartoonist of the last two decades, plus several key historical artists, some newcomers and even a few prose pieces by the likes of John Updike, Chip Kidd ("Peanuts: the Art of Charles M. Schulz") and Glen David Gold ("Carter Beats the Devil"). The works have been loosely organized by genre. Early in the book appears what may be considered the world's first comic strip: Rodolphe Topffer's 1839 "The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck," about a despondent bachelor who perpetually fails at both love and suicide...