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...filmmaker best known for her award-winning documentary, “Because of That War,” depicts the suffering endured by these women whose tragedy-plagued lives leave them searching for a means of emotional recovery. They convene at a hotel to recount their experiences, as all of them lost family members in the bombing...
...should showcase those mostly upbeat anthems or chronicle the composers' mostly downbeat lives. The songs are treated with an awkward mix of reverence and mockery; the lives are reduced to cartoons. Singer Darlene Love, a veteran of Greenwich's heyday, announces at the outset that she is entitled to recount the story because she was part of it; but thereafter she is never seen interacting with the surrogate Ellie (Dinah Manoff) and Jeff (Patrick Cassidy...
...hoping to curry favor within the party by donating some of the $14 million left over from his campaign fund. He offered a vote of confidence to former rival Howard Dean, giving the national party $1 million when Dean took over as chairman. He donated $250,000 to the recount effort of Christine Gregoire, who eventually won a very close Governor's race in Washington. Venturing into local politics, he will probably endorse Antonio Villaraigosa in a runoff election for mayor in L.A., choosing a loyal supporter over incumbent James Hahn. "He gets to travel and gets to pick...
...tired of hearing a daily litany of complaints when I drove my daughter home from middle school, so I imposed a rule: she and her friends could recount their entire bad day without comment from me but only after I heard three good things that had happened to each of them. Some days the best I heard was, "Well, lunch didn't suck." But I can attest to the long-term effects. For the next three years, our ride home was far more pleasant. And when my now 21-year-old daughter calls to talk about things going wrong...
...Beyond the shoddy examples, there is the rickety logic. After decrying how the press and partisans in Washington reflexively think the worst of the other side-President Bush floats above, according to Fleischer-he then quotes, without irony, the President talking about the Florida recount. "If they're going to steal the election, they're going to steal it," Bush serenely said to me at his ranch the day I left Texas." "Stealing" is not, by most people, considered a value-neutral term...