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...comfort zone. He can stand "with the troops"; he can argue that the Democrats want to leave the U.S. military naked in Babylon. He can do what he has done throughout-politicize the war, use it as a bludgeon against Democrats instead of trying to find common ground and thinking through the consequences of his intransigence. Best of all, he can do this secure in the knowledge that this is one battle he will surely win... even as the war shows many signs of worsening, including hundreds killed in Baghdad bombings this past week...
...first crack at GP2, the training ground for Formula One, Hamilton dominated the 2006 season. And hitting the world's premier driving circuit hasn't reduced his momentum - or his appetite for risky maneuvers. Hamilton is "not worried about showing what he's used to doing just because it's Formula One," says Hill...
...frigid months of winter there will always be football on the weekend and in the impossibly fast-paced spring semester I can always count on finding a baseball game to lose myself in for a few hours.On a broader scale, sports are a unifying force that can provide common ground for people from completely disparate backgrounds. An NFL team making the Super Bowl can often do more to bring together that team’s city than any rousing speech by a politician.Are there more mentally stimulating or globally important subjects that I could immerse myself in? Sure...
...Common Ground on Gun Control? Witness: The Dormitory Murders How Much of Cho to Show? Viewpoint: Va. Tech's President Should Resign Echoes of Columbine Inside a Mass Murderer's Mind What Can Schools Do? The Gun Lobby's Counterattack Where Cho Bought His Deadly Weapon Behind the Killings, a Troubled Mind South Korea's Collective Guilt Inside Cho Seung Hui's Dorm When a School Learns to Mourn How to Make Campuses Safer Fatal Shootings at Colleges and Schools Photos
...Under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has called upon Japan to revise its pacifist constitution, the country has taken a turn to the right, and political intimidation by fringe rightist groups isn't unknown. In August the house of senior legislator Koichi Kato was burned to the ground in an arson attack, in what was taken as a warning against Kato's outspoken liberal views. It remains to be seen whether Itoh's shooting was another political warning, or just a personal grudge...