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Bishop Allen has something to hide: they are east coast intellectuals lurking behind electric guitars. Their Diesel jeans, carefully crooked ties and artfully disheveled hair look like the outfit of a typical rock band. Their lyrics mourn lost love and lonely nights. But those lyrics belie a sophistication and tidiness that lurks under their disheveled public image...
...regime crumbles under the relentless onslaught of the coalition, few Baath Party leaders have as much reason to mourn as young Qusay does. Over the past decade, the short, pudgy and mustachioed Qusay quietly consolidated his authority in Iraq, all the while keeping his personal life largely out of the spotlight. He went to law school, married the daughter of a war hero and produced two children. He reputedly likes equestrian sports and keeps his peccadilloes discreet...
...marine base in Jacksonville, N.C., did Reilly find only prostitutes, exotic dancers and tattoo artists to speak to? What about all the other residents? A city dedicated to its military members came across as nothing more than hedonistic. I hope he will return later to help us mourn our dead and carry on our tradition of assisting their families. SHERRIE MICKELSON Jacksonville...
...year ago in Tehran, I noticed a defiantly goofy graffito inscribed on the wall of the old U.S. embassy building, the compound where the American hostages were held in 1979: ON THE DAY THE U.S. WILL PRAISE US, WE WILL MOURN. This was an official slogan--in Iran, as in America, graffiti are the work of miscreants, but in Iran the miscreants run the country--and it was an unintentionally revealing one: the mullahs are terrified of better relations with the U.S. Without the Great Satan, they have no excuse for, and no way to divert attention from, the dreadful...
...those of us who owe an enormous part of our childhood education to programs like his, we know that we are no longer as easily put at ease by television as we once were. This week we mourn not just Mister Rogers, but also the part of ourselves that dies with him. Not only will we miss the man who came into our homes to provide comfort, but also our ability to be comforted...