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...9/11 Skeptics Re "Why the 9/11 Conspiracies Won't Go Away" [Sept. 11]: Your story's idea-that millions of Americans (36%, according to the poll cited) who question the official explanation of what happened on 9/11 are simply unable to deal with the magnitude of the atrocity and the randomness of life-was dismissive and shallow. What about those of us who simply approach life with a healthy dose of skepticism? I would feel much more optimistic about our nation if more people questioned what happened on 9/11. If people had been a little more skeptical, maybe we would...
...cannot be disentangled from George W. Bush's utter conviction that he has made no mistakes in Iraq. "My faith frees me," the President once wrote. "Frees me to make the decisions that others might not like. Frees me to do the right thing, even though it may not poll well. Frees me to enjoy life and not worry about what comes next." In every messy context, the President seeks succor in a simple certainty--good vs. evil, terror vs. freedom--without sensing that wars are also won in the folds of uncertainty and guile, of doubt and tactical adjustment...
...currently trails Patrick, Healey, and Independent candidate Christy Mihos with the support of just one percent of perspective voters, according to the latest Boston Globe/CBS4 poll...
...kind of question that might cause filmmaker Andrew J. Bujalski ’98 to grimace—the phrase is the sort of empty cliché his films refuse to embrace and a label he won’t take seriously. “Go out and poll my generation and see how many of them feel like I embody their voice,” he says in a telephone interview with The Crimson...
...constituents' expense. Doolittle's spokesman Richard Robinson admits he faces a "tough challenge." All the same, Democrats in Washington at first paid Brown no attention. "They told me, 'We're only going to believe it if you can raise money in the district and if you do a poll that shows you're in the running,'" Brown says. He says he promptly raised $600,000 and commissioned a poll that showed him closing to within 2 points of Doolittle. Now Brown says the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has agreed to send him a check. He's still a long shot...