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...about the war in Iraq, "a strategy to win in Iraq or a strategy for Republicans to win elections here at home." There was, of course, no doubt that politics would trump substance. The Republicans dutifully repeated White House talking points, punctuated occasionally by perverse outbursts like Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe's assertion that "this isn't a civil war...the insurgents aren't Iraqis." The melodrama on the Democratic side was the continuing slow-motion self-immolation of Senator John Kerry, who posited, on the radio, "lie and die" as the Bush Administration's alternative...
...memories, and Bosnia and Kosovo received much international attention, yet the most deadly of all recent conflicts seems to go largely unnoticed by both the left and the right. Thank you for awakening us. Nicholas Kerton-Johnson Bristol, England Consumers vs. Climate Change I was pleased to see Jim Ledbetter's essay [June 5] pointing out that individuals need help to slow global warming. I could put solar panels on my house, buy a hybrid car, collect and use rainwater and do a host of other things to curb my contribution to global warming, but the cost...
...Mass., with 30 employees, fears that guaranteed paid leave would encourage workers to take longer and more frequent time off, hurting productivity. "A trained, experienced worker will be missing for three months," Connolly says. "That's a real cost." And anything that increases the cost of doing business, says Jim Klocke of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, could send jobs elsewhere...
...that brings thousands of protesters to the school's gates each year - and that forced the 2001 name change because "School of the Americas" had become too notorious - has brought pressure on Capitol Hill as well. Last Friday, the House of Representatives voted on a measure sponsored by Rep. Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, to remove the school's funding - 10 million taxpayer dollars annually - from the 2007 Foreign Operations budget. McGovern's amendment failed in a close vote, 218-188. "We will not go away on this," McGovern told TIME moments after the vote...
GUYS' GUIDES No ode to Achilles in actor Jim Belushi's tome. Instead, it's Ditka and dating tips. The Sopranos' Frank Vincent is also practical in his Guy's Guide to Being a Man's Man. Sinatra music, yes. SpongeBob neckties...