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...hear the politicians and local leaders tell it, closing a military base is about the worst thing you can do to a community. Ever since Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld listed the 180 or so installations he wants shut down next, local anger and fear have simmered. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman denounced the proposed mothballing of the naval submarine base at Groton as "cruel and unusual punishment," and state officials have churned out stacks of reports disputing the $1.6 billion the Pentagon claims it will save from the move. At Maine's Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, thousands of workers shouting "Take...
...Words In his column "Stop trying to spin the Iraq War" [July 25], Joe Klein wrote that the Rove-Plame-Wilson affair illuminated "a signature disgrace of the Bush presidency: its tendency to treat the war in Iraq as an issue to be spun, rather than a life-and-death struggle to be won." Klein should be applauded for reminding Americans that Bush's top priority is to protect and enhance his and his party's image. Nearly every issue is molded along political-party lines and spun. When will Americans finally stand up and demand that this Administration...
...resulting in two deaths and over 200 injuries. An Islamic extremist group called Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh claimed responsibility in leaflets left near the bombing sites, declaring that "It is time to implement Islamic law in Bangladesh" and "Bush and Blair be warned and get out of Muslim countries." DIED. JOE RANFT, 45, respected Pixar story artist who served as a key creative force behind many of the company's hit animated films, including Toy Story, which earned him an Oscar nod in 1995; in a car accident; in Mendocino County, California. Ranft also did voice-over work on many...
...DIED. JOE RANFT, 45, respected Pixar story artist who served as a key creative force behind many of the company's hit animated films, including Toy Story, which earned him an Oscar nod in 1995; in a car accident; in Mendocino County, Calif. Ranft did voice-over work on many of his films, most famously as Heimlich, the corpulent Teutonic caterpillar in A Bug's Life...
...unethical. That sort of behavior should not be tolerated by either the President or the American people. We expect better from our public servants, elected or otherwise. Lucia Foley Cinnaminson, New Jersey, U.S. War of Words In his column "stop trying to spin the Iraq War" [July 25 ], Joe Klein wrote that the Rove-Plame-Wilson affair illuminated "a signature disgrace of the Bush presidency: its tendency to treat the war in Iraq as an issue to be spun, rather than a life-and-death struggle to be won." Klein should be applauded for reminding Americans that Bush...