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...Iraq is an increasingly precarious quagmire [May 3]. In the attempt to control Iraqi resistance, occupying U.S. forces have censored the country's news media, handpicked a provisional government, discouraged the Shi?ite majority from proportionate influence in a future democracy and labeled as thugs and criminals any who dare to resist. As long as the U.S. willfully creates new enemies at every turn, our rhetoric and military actions in Iraq will ultimately fail. Brad A. Hoffman Solon...
Science, as we all know, is supposed to be objective, but global warming is one of those scientific issues that have been hopelessly mired in politics for years, and the movie's director, Roland Emmerich, can't resist some playful partisan point scoring. He pairs a weak-willed but telegenic President with a Mephistophelian, scientifically ignorant Veep, played by an obvious Dick Cheney look-alike. After the storm hits, tens of thousands of American refugees flee south--whereupon Mexico promptly closes its borders, leaving the hapless, desperate gringos to wade in droves across the Rio Grande...
...stiff, and his scenes are deliberately devoid of drama. These people are strangers - we don't know their stories. They're not about to tell. As the end of his life approached (he died in 1967 at 84), the themes continued almost unchanged, but it's hard to resist trying to weave them into a story. The women in Hotel Window (1955) and Intermission (1963) have aged, and have an air of waiting. In a late picture, Sun in an Empty Room (1963), the occupants have moved out, taking their fixtures and fittings. His last picture, Two Comedians...
Many parents erroneously equate their teenager's drive for independence with rebelliousness, disobedience or disrespect. It's healthy for adolescents to push for autonomy. Give your children the psychological space they need to learn to be self-reliant, and resist the temptation to micromanage...
...into the light. "I think it is very beautiful." So do Lisa and Sasha, both 16 and from south London. They stand in Room 41 nudging each other and muffling their giggles. They don't come to museums very often, but the lure of Becks proved too hard to resist. "Well, he's fit, in' he?" observes Sasha. Does she think the portrait resembles the work of Michelangelo? She looks blank and shrugs. "I dunno," she replies, and her eyes drift back to the screen. Days after David was launched upon an eager public, a portrait of the Duke...