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...fellow Democrats want a presidential nominee long on experience, vision and brains, they will persuade former Vice President Gore [May 28] to throw his hat into the ring. President George W. Bush's disastrous terms have shown us all how hazardous it is to pick a President with very little relevant experience. Good intentions, handsome hairstyles and slick sound bites don't help much when the chips are down. Douglas C. Kelley, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN...
...story's closing line read "A man's car is still his castle, and you don't pick a castle for its energy efficiency." Flip a few pages to the heartbreaking stories of our fallen heroes, many of whom have left behind parents who do not support the war. Isn't the war in part about the future of our fuel supply? The 25% boost in SUV sales and the $130 spent at the pump show that we support the war. Setting aside the issue of global warming, how can we think so little about where all this...
...Mascha, author of Fine Waters: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Most Distinctive Bottled Waters, to a lunch where he would pair our courses with different bottled waters, I was doing it To Catch a Predator--style. I wanted to see if the guy who helps restaurants pick their water lists would suggest a coq au Volvic...
...similarly unique, coming in excitable spasms and accompanied by a frenzied hand-wringing in its more passionate moments: when, for instance, he discovers that the new University librarian is a leader in intellectual history—his own area of concentration when he has time to pick up a textbook...
...Basically, they were trying to pick a fight....I told them I didn’t want to fight. I think what pissed them off the most was I said, ‘Look, I don’t have time for this...