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...true with most major tragedies in life, it takes more than a couple of weeks to get rid of the blues. Each day is a struggle. When the alarm rings in the morning, it’s suddenly difficult to yank yourself out of bed as an underlying sense of pain and loss grabs at your heart and makes that dreamy delirium you just left seem oh-so-inviting. After the tragedy that befell us on Nov. 2, I’ve barely been able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping the Cons in Check | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

...putting politics ahead of real reform. On Sunday, Newsday quoted a former senior CIA official, who charged that the Goss shakeup is really about evening old scores: “The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House. Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president’s agenda...

Author: By Sasha Post, | Title: Failures of Intelligence | 11/17/2004 | See Source »

...going to war. I blame the media for the mistakes about Saddam's WMD, not the Republicans in Washington. Nixon Benoit Malden, Massachusetts, U.S. For young Americans and young Iraqis to kill each other in a continuing cycle of violence in no way furthers the antiterrorism cause. Getting rid of Saddam was a good idea. But replacing his secular dictatorship with a fundamentalist theocracy would not be so good. Iraq will probably have a civil war that will eclipse and consume any puppet democracy that the U.S. creates. Stay the course? That was our motto in Vietnam. Daniel T. Arcieri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...young Americans and young Iraqis to kill each other in a continuing cycle of violence in no way furthers the antiterrorism cause. Getting rid of Saddam was a good idea. But replacing his secular dictatorship with a fundamentalist theocracy would not be so good. Iraq will probably have a civil war that will eclipse and consume any puppet democracy that the U.S. creates. Stay the course? That was our motto in Vietnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 8, 2004 | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...about what is to transpire in the next scene to juice the comedy. In one episode, Sykes' manager tells the camera that Wanda often comes up with crazy ideas that wind up hurting her; we then cut to Wanda deciding to fix her drinking-and-driving problem by getting rid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanda Sykes Wants It All | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

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