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...their way to proclaim their deep, deep love of the Pledge and their unbending faith in God. Wednesday, nearly the full House of Representatives took time from their busy schedules to recite the Pledge and join hands for a rousing rendition of "God Bless America." Hopefully no one will remind them that 50 years ago, before President Eisenhower inserted it into the Pledge, the "under God" phrase didn't exist. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle declared the decision "just nuts," and President Bush took time from a press conference with G-8 leaders to pronounce the whole thing "ridiculous." (Asked...
...should build their national home within a neighboring Arab country." Problem is that there are 3.5 million Palestinians who don't share Armey's view that they should just pack up and leave their homes because of some conservative Republican's ideological fancy. Indeed, someone may want to gently remind the House GOP leader that ethnic cleansing is just the sort of thing that got Slobodan Milosevic into all that trouble...
...distant as he is pleasant, as guarded as he is engaged, his very politeness a kind of barrier. His steadfast allegiance to the controversial Church of Scientology, his surprising split a year ago from Nicole Kidman, the gay rumors (and his diligent litigation in response) serve to remind us that despite all the ink spilled and all the gossip milled over the past two decades, Cruise remains someone about whom we have never quite been able to connect the dots...
...toylike AIBOs since the robo-dog was introduced three years ago, at an average price of $1,500 each. "I see robots in consumers' homes as their personal pals," says Satoshi Amagai, chief of Sony's robot division. "They will talk to you, sing to you, remind you of things and will help you live more effectively...
...hours, all-you-can-eat buffet of food, booze, art and piquantly incestuous sex. What makes the novel work is that Beckman's Cracow has two faces, comic and tragic. The city enables their excesses, but at the book's most chilling moments it finds ways to remind them of the consequences of that excess in a way that an American city never could. When Gurney peeks below that cute cobblestoned surface, he finds the ravages of communism, and beneath them, the horrors of the Holocaust...