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...Bush is playing three-card motley with these weapons,” he said. “We’ve got cameras that could shoot the other side of Jupiter, but they can’t show us one photograph of a weapon in Iraq...
...former fourth-grade teacher who sews quilts for peace, a 24-year-old who is the closest thing to a professional pacifist, a Gulf War veteran who is trying to rally his brethren against Gulf War II--these are the new faces of the peace movement, a motley collection of activists who would seem to have little chance of changing popular sentiment but have started to make their voices heard all the same. Some protests have been hard to miss, like the Oct. 26 march on Washington that drew 100,000 people. But for months the antiwar movement has been...
...pitted an unlikely alliance of the American Civil Liberties Union and former Lewinskygate prosecutor Kenneth Starr against McCain and former President Clinton’s Solicitor General Seth P. Waxman. The court should stand with those who want to stop vote buying and influence mongering, not the motley alliance that favors the present situation: entrenched political interests like unions, behemoth corporations like Enron and lobbying groups like the National Rifle Association that call the shots on Capitol Hill...
Yesterday morning, while I was still sleeping, a motley parade wound down Main Street in my hometown. The high school marching band, competition-honed, demarcated the route with a syncopated rolling step; Boy Scouts, American flags braced in brackets at their belts, marched raggedly; Brownies walked four abreast at such an uneven pace that the banner they carried looked wavy, as though at the bottom of a shallow pool. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, waving little flags, rumbled down Main Street in a convertible not yet old enough to be antique, followed at a distance by a knot of grizzled...
Kanter is loathe, however, to make the audience feel like it is “at a concert,” so there is only one point where the action stops completely and the cast of characters—a motley crew of jazz club musicians—stop and listen to a particularly integral song. This moment at the climax of the play “shows what the music means to the group,” explains Kanter, echoing Clifford’s final musing in the play on the lives of the side...