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...immortal love songs and list songs are rendered by such pop stars as Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow and Robbie Williams. They are supposed to bring in the younger crowd, for whom Porter is either antiquated or anonymous. But there's little they can do to lift the pall of joylessness that hangs over this film...
Almost all the mistakes I've made in my life, personal and public, happened to me when I was so tired I could hardly lift my arms above my shoulders. It's not fashionable to say, but it's true. And I'll bet it's true in the George Bush White House. I bet it's true in every White House that's ever existed. You've got to work like crazy, you have a limited amount of time, you want to do all these things, but you have to be very sensitive to the risk of error...
...scientists said they had no specific goals in mind when signing the letter, other than publicly standing behind Kerry’s recent promises to support science and lift restrictions on federal funds for stem cell research...
...father, the former President, because he was consulting "a higher father," as he famously told Bob Woodward in Plan of Attack. It is at this point that his faith becomes more than a matter of conscience for some critics, who wonder whether his particular set of spiritual instincts both lift him up and close him off to conflicting points of view--"bypass the mind and go straight to the bloodstream," as Princeton professor Elaine Pagels suggests. "I think that part of the blockage is that he thinks, I've experienced the truth in religion because it's changed my life...
...talks all the more daunting. The FARC has yet to even approach Uribe's negotiating table. Top AUC commanders agreed in May to confine themselves, at least during the peace talks, within a 368-sq-km zone inside Córdoba province - but only because the government agreed to lift all arrest warrants against them for the time being. Meanwhile, Colombian police are on the look out for any sign of Castaño. In a radio interview before his disappearance, he lamented that drug trafficking was "destroying" his army. "Many [AUC] commanders have lost their way," he said...