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...Mission to Mars "Bush's Mars plan is an election-year strategy: a weapon of mass distraction designed to divert our attention from the economy." Gail Moore San Francisco...
...very start of his Meet the Press interview, Bush said, "I'm a war President." Winning the "war" that he declared has been this President's stated mission, and it is how he will be judged. From the days immediately following Sept. 11, the rhetoric has been stark and bellicose. "You're either with us or against us," he warned early on. Any country that "harbors or supports terrorism will be regarded as a hostile regime." But Bush's actions, except for Iraq, haven't matched the dire nature of the threat described-and his rhetoric has betrayed a moral...
...reluctant to quit. But ?60 Minutes? has a ticking urgency: it?s a time bomb ever threatening to go boom. The show has a need to hector, and a suspicion, in most of its stories, that powerful people often have something to hide, and that it is the mission of Hewitt and his honchos to expose greed, chicanery and general weaseliness. (Recall the superb ?Saturday Night Live? sketch, in November 1984, when Shearer as Wallace quizzed the slimy-squirmy manufacturer of defective Whoopee cushions Nathan Thurm, played by Martin Short...
...Gates explained to a gathering of about 50 Harvard students, faculty members and Boston-area residents that the objective of the documentary was to gauge the economic, political and social progress that the African-American community had made since King’s death. In short, he described the mission as determining “where are we as a people, at the dawn of the twenty-first century...
...Museum’s collections serve art history students, but they also provide a rich collection for public visitors, and (equally important) collect and catalogue and preserve and restore artwork of extreme significance. Houghton Library is a fantastic resource for literary scholars; but of equal credibility is its mission of meticulous preservation of monumental books. And the villa naturally serves its select and enviable group of scholars; but the facility would have reason to exist even without them as a rare preserve of something special...