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judgment call Tony Blair believes "with every fiber of instinct and conviction I have" that he did the right thing in Iraq. But a poll of 3,028 people in Britain, France and Germany shows Europeans don't trust his judgment...
Such parental self-sacrifice is no doubt human nature, but it's an instinct that seems more in evidence at the moment than in years past. The vast majority of those currently having children are members of that notorious--and notoriously large--demographic, Generation X, a cohort that has proved highly susceptible to displays of status. "Having a baby now is like having a country house or an SUV," says NPD's Cohen. Those intent on having the best-dressed child on the playground can swathe their offspring in such luxury labels as Burberry, Donna Karan and Versace...
...which was to disrupt possible al-Qaeda activity and find out what they knew. Everything else was, 'We'll deal with it later.' Now it's later, and there are only bad and worse outcomes." It just adds to the burdens Blair is taking to Washington this week. His instinct to stick closely to Bush is now a big political loser, his poll numbers never lower. The failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq leaves many wondering whether politically motivated U.S. intelligence sold him a bill of goods. The American-led occupation of Iraq has been badly organized...
...recruits yet another class of kids to hunt down the vigilantes on their island stronghold. Leader of the Wild Seven is Shuya Nanahara, played by fiery-eyed 21-year-old Tatsuya Fujiwara. In the first film, Nanahara is a somber schoolboy who survives more due to luck than killer instinct. In the sequel, he reappears as the almost impossibly intense and charismatic?though still somber?terrorist mastermind. Holed up in his ramshackle fort, torn between enlightened world-weariness and revolutionary zeal, he's a teenage mix of Osama bin Laden and Joseph Conrad's Kurtz. "They may call us evil...
...newspaper last weekend that they'd likely be in Iraq at least four years. American GIs now find themselves peering through a 110-degree haze at an enemy who is essentially made invisible by the language and cultural barriers separating the troops from the local population. And the survival instinct requires that the soldier treat every crowd as a potentially deadly threat. Thus, for example, the killing of two Iraqis in Baghdad during a protest by former soldiers demanding to be paid, after U.S. officials said the crowd began throwing stones at American soldiers...