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Elliott should lighten up. If the president can dress up like a fighter pilot, why can't the rest of us wear costumes on Halloween? We all need a break, and if it means going back to childhood, that's O.K. It was probably the last time most of us felt secure. ROBERT E. MILLER II Saugatuck, Mich...
Suddenly, Dartboard’s mind was afire with possibilities. Herschbach has said that he took on the role in part to lighten the image of his fellow sages, to break the celluloid ceiling and prove that even Nobel laureates can appear in juvenile cartoons—and how right he was. If only Harvard’s other bright lights would consider making the move to animation...
...past week alone, four of his men were killed and 46 were wounded in combat. That was before three more were killed at Tikrit Thursday, and more were wounded at Khaldiya. And the Bush administration is not currently expecting substantial levels of military or financial support to lighten the U.S. load. Had postwar Iraq at least offered the spectacle of grateful Iraqis cheering the U.S. as their liberators and getting on with rebuilding the country, the question of Iraq's weapons or al-Qaeda links might seem purely academic. But the mounting financial and human cost of the occupation, more...
...Even as the wrangling at the UN continues, it's far from clear that even a new Security Council resolution would significantly lighten the U.S. military burden in Iraq. Countries such as India, Pakistan and Turkey, where domestic opposition to deployment in Iraq remains strong, remain uncommitted, and even with a UN resolution in place some may look for other reasons to stay home from a dangerous and open-ended mission. In the case of Turkey, which the Pentagon is hoping to convince to replace U.S. troops in the fiery "Sunni Triangle," the situation is made more complex also...
...from allies, hoping to recruit two or even three divisions of assorted Europeans and south Asians to help provide security. It's not yet clear how forthcoming these nations would be, but even if they provide upward of 30,000 troops, the load on the U.S. military may not lighten significantly...