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...Bush and Kerry are never more impassioned than when they put the central question on the table: Whom do you trust to keep you safe? Bush lives in a dangerous world, Kerry in a complex one; one exalts strength and certainty, the other subtlety and sophistication. Kerry, the war hero, says military power alone can't win the war on terrorism. Bush, the war President, says Kerry promises bold action but only if no other government disagrees. Kerry, who speaks five languages, sees a world so intertwined that even a superpower can't survive alone. Bush, who speaks in black...
...Haiti, with few respected leaders and democratic institutions, will not be easy to turn around. The rebel hero Philippe has long been under investigation for ties to drug trafficking. (He denies any involvement.) Some of his ex-military allies are linked to atrocities, including civilian massacres. The constitutionally mandated interim President, Supreme Court Chief Boniface Alexandre, is barely recognizable to most Haitians, though he won applause for appointing an untainted national police chief last week. Alexandre's main task, to hold a special presidential election, is vexed by the fact that Haiti's parliament shut down in January and Aristide...
Like so many enraptured Quebecois youngsters, the Bears’ netminder chose goaltending stalwart Patrick Roy to be his idol, devotedly following the all-star and local hero during his glory days...
...public servant; in Washington. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974 for The Americans: The Democratic Experience, a cultural history of post--Civil War America, and spent 13 years as Librarian of Congress. Famous for the enlightened skepticism with which he regarded popular culture, he warned, "Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models...
Jesus has brief onscreen sex with his first wife Mary Magdalene and later commits adultery. Judas is a hero, the strongest and best of the apostles. Paul is a hypocrite and liar. Jesus is so dazed that, even on the eve of his Crucifixion, he is still not quite sure whether to preach love or murder Romans. Ready for director Martin Scorsese's new movie, The Last Temptation of Christ? ... When it opens this Friday, religious crowd scenes are almost certain to appear outside the theaters as well as in them. For the past month, conservative Christians have denounced...