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...distinguish movie spectacle from moral dilemmas. Faced with irresistible impulse, he says, we can choose to resist it. Try to think of the last film in which the hero has the chance to kill a man he believes abducted and murdered his child and then, with an exertion of iron will, says...
...White House had been considering a plan for homeland security for months, but Bush aides admit that he gave the 11-min. speech ahead of schedule. "We wanted to strike while the iron was hot," says an aide. But in truth, the heat was on Bush. For the first time since the war began, the White House was struggling to remain in control of the agenda. Bush went before the cameras only hours after the televised congressional testimony of FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis agent who ripped the bureau's pre-9/11 bunglings in a letter...
When the evidence against Skakel appeared, it was all circumstantial. The murder weapon, a Toney Penna six-iron, came from a set owned by Michael and Tommy's mother. Witnesses--a family friend, a hairdresser, a chauffeur--came forward with suspicious remarks Michael had made over the years. Neighbors remembered the young Skakel whacking the heads off squirrels with a golf club...
...when the Iron Curtain went down in 1991, hordes of American slackers poured into East bloc cities like Prague, Cracow and Budapest, quaint, cobblestoned capitals where a recent college grad could sit in a cafe all day, smoke bad cigarettes, drink bad wine, bask in the low, low exchange rates and attempt to write the Great American Novel. In 1991 the inaugural issue of the English-language weekly Prague Post proclaimed, "We are living in the Left Bank of the '90s." So where are those novels, and how great are they? A decade later--blame it on those long Slavic...
...boost your chances of picking up a signal, you can build a Pringles-can antenna, a very cool home-brew device that plugs into most wireless cards. The easiest instructions are online at oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448 Basically, you'll need a soldering iron, a glue gun and about $6.45 in parts from Radio Shack, Home Depot and the snack aisle of your grocery store. No time to build one? Perhaps one of your neighbors will help. After all, the whole block may reap the benefit...