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...cheerleader for some of the more outlandish justifications for the Iraq war, like the supposed link between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, though commentators like David Corn - a former Washington editor of the Nation - delighted in pointing out that the Times' reporting in its news pages had the habit of undercutting the claims that Safire was advancing as fact in his columns...
Barry Berkus, president of B3 Architects, sees another trend in the offing: multigenerational housing that includes multiple master-bedroom suites. We're not there yet, but overlay the aging boomers with the unemployment rate and the burgeoning habit of college graduates to bounce back home for a while, and what's needed is a space that can handle a family that looks nothing like Ozzie and Harriet...
...reveals that he has yet to confront the issues through which he guides his audiences. His wife’s death in a car accident three years before continues to haunt him. In his hotel, Burke literally runs into Eloise Chandler (Jennifer Aniston), a beautiful florist with an odd habit of writing obscure words on walls. As their relationship progresses, it becomes increasingly apparent that Eloise, despite her own destructive tendencies (falling for men she knows will love her and leave her), may be the only one capable of pushing Burke to deal with his past. Yet the film establishes...
...Foreign governments can (and often do) throw up their hands at the sheer unpredictability of U.S. politics, the ways in which deals cooked up behind closed doors by sophisticated officials have a habit of blowing up when exposed to the bracing inquiry of congressional leaders and their lobbyist friends. That can, indeed, be a trial. On the other hand, the evidence of the last 200 years or so would suggest that the U.S. political system has not served its nation badly. As David Brooks of the New York Times argued recently, "the founders created a government that was cautious...
...used to tell me there are many ways to kill a cat," she told a crowd outside her parents' thatched, mud-walled home. "I have killed it. That's why I am champion." More confusion was provided by Semenya's ancestors in the Sepedi tribe, who were in the habit of naming villages in the area after planets. Semenya's people, it turns out, come from Venus and Mars...