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...that it is widely seen as being insincere at best and hypocritical at worst. Few doubt that toppling Saddam Hussein's dictatorship was more about breaking Arab military strength and projecting American strategic power than fighting terrorism, much less creating Iraqi democracy. While Iraq is no longer a one-man show, it will be a very long time before anyone considers the country, now dominated by Shi'ite Muslim gangs, Kurdish warlords and Sunni terrorists, emblematic of an emerging democracy. If the Iraq war was about Bush's freedom agenda, Arabs wonder, why has the White House stood...
...Hillary Clinton have put enormous faith in Penn, and given him veto power, aides say, over every word that goes into her television ads and every line in her mailers. "He had her and the President's trust very deeply," says one adviser who is close to the campaign. Adds another: "He's a one-man shop...
...Christmas, he has another one-man dystopia drama. It's I Am Legend, directed by Francis Lawrence, the Viennese director of music videos who made his feature debut with a good science-fiction film, Constantine, and written by Akiva Goldsman, based on Mark Protosevich's script for a 1999 I Am Legend project that was to be directed by Ridley Scott and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. As in I, Robot, Smith has seen the future - and it sucks...
...terms.) Unlimited reelection was arguably the proposal that repelled voters most, and to ignore that reality would only invite trouble. Instead, says Bart Jones, author of a new Chávez biography, !Hugo!, it's time for Chávez and chavistas "to stop thinking about the Bolivarian Revolution as a one-man show and start cultivating other leaders." Alberto Barrera, co-author of another biography, Hugo Chávez, agrees: "Chavistas have unfortunately reached that ideological point where they can't even imagine any other President." If so, however, they risk leaving chavismo - and in turn Venezuela's poor - politically orphaned...
...own.KILLING TIMEDespite committing seven penalties on Saturday night and another seven the night before, playing a man down for a combined total of 28 minutes, Harvard’s penalty-killing units never allowed their opponents to capitalize.On both nights, Richter performed flawlessly despite the one-man deficit, stopping the five shots let loose by the Engineers and another eight power-play shots from the Dutchmen. “The [penalty kill] has been really good all year so far,†Richter said. “We’ve been blocking shots, keeping them...