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...much debate, Turkey's parliament voted last week to send some 10,000 troops to help keep the peace in Iraq. The news couldn't have been better timed for the Bush Administration, arriving just as it launched a campaign to convince Americans that Iraq isn't quite the mess it seems. The Turkish troops would be the third largest force (Britain is second) in Iraq and, as Muslims, lend sorely needed credibility to the occupation...
...began to bubble when the political, economic and counterterrorism group meetings were either canceled or held without civilian Pentagon participation. An NSC source offered the plausible argument that these were just logistical problems with a new process. But the instantaneous rumors were typical of the Administration's foreign-policy mess...
When it comes to our environment, George Bush and Dick Cheney have broken the trust of all Americans, but especially young Americans. They’ve thrown a party for their friends the special interests and left your generation to clean up the mess and stuck you with the bill...
...with his parents, who just want him to meet and fall in love with a nice Italian girl. After Angelo’s new apartment is robbed, he moves in with Nino, a childhood friend who, like Angelo, is gay. But tell their parents? Fugghedaboutit. Mambo Italiano is a mess. Where sexual orientation, ethnic and family issues should be addressed seriously, another joke is made to relieve the tension. The idea of a gay Italian-French-Canadian has a lot of comic potential; in the end, unfortunately, the director is too overwhelmed to stop making jokes and tell what could...
...trip in a time machine; women still don’t have the vote (and since women and guests can only enter some rooms, separate spheres are in full force). Despite some exceptions, those in control are generally white and middle- or upper-class; and when you make a mess, someone else is usually there to clean up after you. (I always thought it was strangely appropriate when, during punch season, one club dresses up like suffragettes and mocks the early feminist movement. Isn’t that the final clubs’ current era, anyway...