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...What no one on the team understands is that being oblivious to how you are perceived is the easiest path to unlikability. The lovable loser knows he's hopelessly flailing, while the plain old loser keeps up the ugly charade. And although ignoring reality may seem dignified, it's really like Michael Dukakis' riding in the tank and thinking it made him look like a warrior. The lovable loser has more dignity because he keeps going despite his awareness of futility: he knows it's stupid to raise taxes and not lose every state except Minnesota, to try to kick...
...plain that Iraq needed fixing months ago. With continued attacks on U.S. troops and mounting pressure to bring them home, the Administration started looking for ways to bring in more foreign soldiers. They first sought to get troops from India, Pakistan and Turkey, among others, into the theater of operations. But since none of these nations would commit without a new Security Council resolution, desultory discussions took place in July on the possibility of a new U.N. mandate. They didn't get very far. Bush left for his vacation in Crawford, Texas, calling for a greater international presence in Iraq...
...policy proposals were just plain dishonest, just flat-out misrepresentation, and the truth wasn’t getting out,” said Krugman. “I’m trying to wake people up, to get them to understand how badly we’ve gone off course,” he wrote in an e-mail after the event...
...this for real? Is this the same Saudi Arabia that, despite plain evidence, questioned for months the fact that 15 of the 9/11 hijackers were its citizens? The kingdom whose Interior Minister implied that the attacks on the U.S. were the work of "Zionists"? The country whose petrodollars have long funded terrorist groups? Americans, plainly, have misgivings about the Saudi kingdom, doubts that only grew when the Bush Administration, led by a President cozier than most to Riyadh, blacked out 28 pages dealing with Saudi Arabia from Congress's official report on Sept. 11, producing the smell of a cover...
...plain truth is that chocolate's antioxidants and flavonoids are also found in more healthful packages--like fruits and vegetables--that offer nutrients, vitamins and fiber, none of which are in chocolate. Moderation, as always, is key. "You should not think that by gorging yourself on chocolate, you're going to be doing yourself any good," says Crozier. "But if you like chocolate anyway, make it dark chocolate, and it could well be healthy...