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...Bush has made some hard choices during his four years, some of the toughest a President has had to make. He sticks to his guns and does not retreat. Twenty or 30 years from now, he will be described as a man of vision and courage. He stands up for what he believes is right and does not ask the world for its opinion. Mark King Lyons, Nebraska...
...public discourse. In recent years, China's media have wooed readers with expos?s of corruption in officialdom, while websites have buzzed with debates on sensitive topics like police brutality and the need for free expression. But since Hu's speech, those critical of the regime have been forced into retreat. Last fall, police shut down "A Complete Mess," China's most lively forum for political debate on the Internet, without ever explaining why. Then discussions of the forum's demise were banned from other websites. Propaganda officials have ordered reporters at the Legal Daily and other newspapers not to write...
...tells himself he has a mandate to shake things up. Look out, America. Look out, world! Jeff Bennetzen Bogart, Georgia, U.S. Bush has made some hard choices during his four years, some of the toughest a President has had to make. He sticks to his guns and does not retreat. Twenty or 30 years from now, he will be described as a man of vision and courage. He stands up for what he believes is right and does not ask the world for its opinion. Mark King Lyons, Nebraska, U.S. You chose President Bush for "sticking to his guns...
BUSH HAS MADE SOME HARD CHOICES during his four years, some of the toughest a President has had to make. He sticks to his guns and does not retreat. Twenty or 30 years from now, he will be described as a man of vision and courage. He stands up for what he believes is right and does not ask the world for its opinion...
...that is the happy part of the movie. Things get darker as a real dirty truck bomb goes off in the city's center. There is far more devastation than the drill projected. The response is chaotic: workers are trapped in burning offices as rescue crews retreat from the radioactive zone. Panic ensues, and the heroism and derring-do that follow only remind us that the real time for lifesaving action ended long before...