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...wait a minute! Is it really so illogical for a nice Palestinian boy to fall in love with an equally agreeable Jewish girl? It must happen from time to time in the real world. Or perhaps we should say it ought to happen or we are all lost to unending stupidity. Only Human, in its deliriously goofy way, lives up to its title, implying that human beings sometimes have no choice but to follow the dictates of their yearning souls, no matter what the fanatics may be muttering outside the camera's range. The movie does not make...
...hotel ballroom with a deft mix of Bush-bashing, proposals for Democrats and a little humor. "I've lived long enough to know that things happen, and things you?d never expect," she said and then paused, as the members of audience began to laugh nervously. "But we ought to reverse the mean-spirited bankruptcy bill." She got loud applause during a riff on fiscal responsibility, one of her husband?s favorite issues but not one many in her party found very exciting. "People say, well, is fiscal responsibility a progressive issue?" Clinton said. "Well, if the strategy...
...animal-rights ethic to the letter, it would be a disaster. It would lead to species extinction." Where the activists may have a point, he says, concerns conditions at 1,400 roadside menageries, traveling shows and petting zoos around the country, many of which are substandard and, rightly, ought to be shuttered...
...other corporate-restaurant concepts." Overton can live with that. "We just try to be really good, with strong flavors," he says. "Authenticity isn't anything that we really care about." He's ready for the purists who will complain that the cured meat in a new pasta amatriciana really ought to be guanciale, made from pork jowls, rather than pancetta, pork belly. "You know what? Most of our people do not care," Overton says...
...though the fact that this is the election six years into the Bush presidency ought to give the otherwise faltering Democrats a shot at picking up seats. As for the President, he's a mixed bag. He has prosecuted the war well, for which he deserves support...