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...should be careful to capture bin Laden alive [VIEWPOINT, March 17]. Such advice is offensive. Whether he is captured dead or alive is the decision of bin Laden, not the U.S. It was bin Laden, the son of a wealthy father, who chose to murder innocent people. Do not insult his poor followers by suggesting he is one of them. Absolutely not. He is educated. He had opportunities and privileges that most of them will never be offered. He made his own decision. Bin Laden wanted a war, and now he's got it. DOUG ROBERTS Syracuse, Utah...
...movie is based on a book by Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice, hardly a Giuliani ally, which fed suspicion that it might be a hatchet job. Yes, it makes Giuliani look like a jerk, but that's both an insult and a compliment. You boo Rudy the jerk when he ends his marriage via a press conference, but you cheer Rudy the jerk when he pushes around insider traders and Mob bosses. Giuliani's philosophy was that it takes a tough guy to run a tough city. If that doesn't always come across prettily on screen, that...
...Both Menaechmus twins were in a class with me last semester,” he says. “Maybe that explains their zest when they insult and threaten...
...tough talk: Saddam's envoy Izzat, above, lashed out with a typically Iraqi put-down INSULT OF THE WEEK "Curse Be Upon Your Mustache!" An Iraqi diplomat unleashes a hairy bit of invective...
What Vardalos probably means by "no jokes" is none of the insult comedy that sitcoms often fall back on. Making fun of someone's baklava may be cruel inside the Greek community, but it's not one of the cutting, hate-tinged riffs so many sitcom characters display. "The challenge is being funny without being cheap," she says. "We all genuinely like each other and don't want to be funny at each other's expense." It's difficult not to rely on sitcom conventions when CBS pushed the premiere date forward a few weeks to get the show...