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...pedestal. But as people continue to take secret satisfaction in her downfall, her story is sending a powerful message. Stewart may have devoted her entire career to teaching young women how to cook and decorate, but her most enduring lesson will likely result from her demise: a lady ought to know her place...
...Iraq, praising that doctrine of clerical rule just last month while visiting Tehran. But whatever his beliefs about the proper place of the clergy in a future Iraqi constitution, anyone suggesting that Ayatollah Sistani is staying behind a "thick wall" separating the mosque from the affairs of state ought to check in with Paul Bremer...
...pedestal. But as people continue to take secret satisfaction in her downfall, her story is sending a powerful message. Stewart may have devoted her entire career to teaching young women how to cook and decorate, but her most enduring lesson will likely result from her demise: a lady ought to know her place...
Journalist Mickey Kaus once asked, “Has any single American of [the 20th] century done more harm than Robert McNamara?” It’s a good question. Although most of us hold it as an article of faith that war criminals ought to be punished, people generally have a hard time holding their own leaders to the same standards of accountability they demand from others. McNamara has literally spent his retirement skiing in Aspen and vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard. It would be more appropriate if he were locked away, and shame...
...explains. ?I just put a finger on the gun: boom, boom, boom, boom. He?s done. He got flipped out of the boat, he went straight down. That?s when Kerry came running out of the guntub screaming ?ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire.? Then he turned to me and said, ?I ought to have you court-martialed for shooting.? I said, ?Hmmph?sorry big boy. When somebody brings a gun up on me I?m gonna shoot and I?ll ask questions later ?cause I ain?t goin? back in a body...