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...Australian forces ended their mission in southern Iraq this week and began heading home, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd praised the troops but said the decision to send them had been a mistake. The government of his predecessor, John Howard, had joined the war against Saddam Hussein's regime "without a full and proper assessment ... of its consequences." At Tallil air base, Lieutenant Colonel Chris Websdane's praise for his soldiers was unqualified: "You should be proud of your achievements...
Savage Grace Directed by Tom Kalin; written by Howard A. Rodman; not yet rated; out now In this acid, fact-based portrait of the idle rich, love means finding new ways to hurt the ones you love most. Julianne Moore is the desperate mom, Stephen Dillane the sour dad, and two fine young actors, Barney Clark and Eddie Redmayne, play their son at various stages of his promise and ruin. A lush, creepy, boldly acted tale of suffocating passion...
...work in 1982 when he decided not to make a second try for the presidency. And for all the millions the Republican Party has raised by promising to protect the nation from him, he has made the Senate work by finding allies in the other party, from Howard Baker to Bob Dole to Lauch Faircloth...
...closely guarded crown jewel - to volunteers, who used their own laptops and the unlimited night and weekend minutes of their cell-phone plans to contact every name and populate a political organization from the ground up. "The tools were there, and they built it," says Joe Trippi, who ran Howard Dean's 2004 campaign. "In a lot of ways, the Dean campaign was like the Wright brothers. Four years later, we're watching the Apollo project...
...Kandel, famous for his study of the brain, was a history and literature major as a Harvard undergraduate but found himself interested in discovering more about the brain after an encounter with a fellow student at the College whose parents were psychoanalysts, according to a biography posted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where he serves as an investigator...