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...Should Bush Say He's Sorry? Columnist Charles Krauthammer's "The Trouble with Apologies" [April 26] missed the point. As Krauthammer stated, Franklin Roosevelt did not apologize for Pearl Harbor, Harry Truman did not apologize for dropping atom bombs, and Bill Clinton did not apologize for the Oklahoma City bombing. But those men did not pre-emptively launch a war against another country. By invading Iraq unnecessarily, by misleading the American public about the WMD threat of Saddam Hussein and his so-called ties to al-Qaeda, Bush put American lives at risk and U.S. influence on the line...
Rising star Toni Maticevski's exquisite tea-stained organza gowns are more suited to a salon than a safari, but his collection shares something with Akira's. "I'm really inspired by menswear," he says. Maybe not with his pearl-festooned blouses, but surely with his tailored worsted-wool trousers and jackets. This year Maticevski also launched his first men's capsule collection - as elegantly attenuated as the designer's 1.93-m frame. "Menswear is like my release," he says. "I think it's cool...
...otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress.” According to the Second Court, Bush lacked such “congressional authorization,” since Congress never officially declared war after Sept. 11 (as it did against Nazi Germany after Pearl Harbor). Nor did the administration have constitutional authority “to detain as an enemy combatant an American citizen seized on American soil outside a zone of combat...
...Portrait of a Platoon," written by Romesh Ratnesar and Michael Weisskopf and edited by Lisa Beyer and Steve Koepp, won the National Headliner Award for war coverage, while Joe Klein won first place in the magazine-column category. Weisskopf and Nachtwey won the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage from the Los Angeles Press Club. And Weisskopf, Brian Bennett and Michael Ware won honorable mention for best magazine reporting from abroad from the Overseas Press Club for a series of Iraq pieces...
...accounts, Tillman was a serious man, weighed with concerns of the world and of war. The Sept. 11 attacks had a significant impact on him, and he said the day after: “My grandfather was at Pearl Harbor and a lot of my family has gone and fought in wars, and I really haven’t done a damn thing...