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...Republicans want to portray the President as a bungler who?s allowed defense capabilities to diminish for six years," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. Party leaders stand ready to argue that America was not adequately prepared for the current war, and that the country is not ready to fight in a second theater should another crisis suddenly arise. The strategy of attacking the President?s military policy in the midst of a war has its risks. "Democrats can certainly be counted on to argue that the GOP is merely playing politics," says Dickerson. "And Republicans are also mindful...
...forum later focused on a more general discussion of how the media and the public have come to portray war in the 90s, and how Kosovo may be a lesson for both...
Finally, the Ireland of today is not the stereotypical Ireland of perfectly thatched homes, leprechauns, fairies and gold at the end of the rainbow. Nor is it the dank, gloomy and oppressive place that some writers portray. Rather, this "Celtic Tiger" is rearing its head and roaring at long last with an economic growth. It is a nation that takes ancient forms and smartly and beautifully updates them to light the end of the 20th century. It is a nation that, in the North, is finally nearing a peaceful resolution to hundreds of years of conflict with the descendants...
...will be talked about--more so than the positive," he sighs before leaving his trailer for the set. "The facts are that absolutely nothing wrong was done to that island. If anything, I've seen our people take meticulous care with every little branch. We're trying to portray the beauty of Thailand's nature, and how Thailand is in one of those unique time frames in its history. It's such a wild, crazy time in this country right now, almost like Paris...
...Happily, even; and why not? I belong to an equally worldwide (though less exposed) counterculture that values quality sound and whose members struggle for cultural survival in the face of the Mainstream Threat by battling each other, be it on microphones, turntables or breakdancing floors. And I try to portray it in the scribbles that cover my book of rhymes; and that's real, baby...