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...Marc Boal, is a journalist for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and Playboy, which ran a story that Paul Haggis expanded into the sharpest of last year's Iraq-related dramas, In the Valley of Elah. These two filmmakers have pooled their complementary talents to make one of the rare war movies that's strong but not shrill, and sympathetic to guys doing an impossible...
...involved was taken in the teeth of Russian opposition, but also because NATO was openly taking sides in a civil war (Kosovo was legally part of Serbia). As the scale of Serbian atrocities in Kosovo became clear, I changed my mind, coming to believe that there were rare cases when humanitarian intervention - that sly little euphemism for war - was justified. But nobody can say they weren't warned about what would happen next. In their new book America Between the Wars,, Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier, two former Clinton Administration officials, recount a conversation about Kosovo between Strobe Talbott, Clinton...
...disapproval rating is the most feared disease in politics, rare and highly contagious. Bush contracted it after Katrina stripped his immunity and the germs swept in: Iraq, foreclosures, $4 gas. So you can't blame the GOP for trying to seal away its afflicted leader like the boy in the bubble. From now on, candidates in swing states won't go near him without a mask, gloves and a bottle of Purell. John McCain, the party's nominee, is promising to fumigate Washington. Add one more metaphor of sickness: the lame duck...
...cancer isn't one disease; it's dozens of them, each with different mechanisms that make the fight diabolically difficult. The most pernicious forms of cancer--among them, pancreatic, lung and brain--are still nearly invincible. Survival rates in rare forms of cancer aren't budging much, either. And the cancer arsenal is still heavy on the blunderbuss--blasting the body with harsh chemotherapy and radiation that take a huge toll on healthy as well as diseased tissue. Nor has the national health-care system done a great job of prevention and early detection. Worst of all, many people...
...more to do with Silicon Valley than Big Pharma to support research that in four years got four new treatments to patients--Thalomid, Velcade, Revlimid and Doxil. That's about six years faster than the decade it usually takes for such drug development and rollout. Multiple myeloma is a rare cancer of the bone marrow that sickens about 20,000 Americans each year--precisely the uncommon form of the disease that often falls into the research cracks. The MMRF benefited from the aggressive work of founder Kathy Giusti, a multiple-myeloma survivor and former pharmaceutical executive. When...