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...appeared onstage. Mellow Beatles covers provided background noise as excited groupies mulled about, unruffled by the delay and fraught with anticipation. When the band finally made their way onstage, the audience was assaulted by a frenzy of percussion and a primal howling that could only mean one thing: Rusted Root was back in Boston...
...movies like Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action, we see lawyers (or in Erin Brockovich, a legal secretary) bravely sacrificing their careers and their financial resources to sue evil, polluting corporations on behalf of cancer-stricken children. Naturally, we root for the families and for their plucky lawyers over the attorneys for the corporations, who are portrayed as either wily and corrupt or idiotic and corrupt. While the movies end differently, we’re meant to see that justice involves large punitive damages for the families of the sick children...
...like a banker, charges past rows of salad dressing and diapers in the suburban Virginia Safeway, a plastic grocery basket swinging at his side. He scans the produce section until he finds what he has come for: turnips. He examines them one by one. "Too big means the root is too tough inside, too small you've got nothing left once it's peeled," the man explains as he fills up a plastic bag and twists it closed...
...take issue with your statement that "throughout the Muslim world, sympathy for the Palestinians and antagonism toward Israel" fuel the hatred of the U.S. The root of Islamic enmity toward Israel is a hatred of a non-Islamic country that has the audacity to exist at all in a region that Arabs consider Islamic and has succeeded economically where the Arabs of pre-Israel Palestine did not. Muslim hatred of the West and the U.S. is much more complicated. Muslim monarchies and dictatorships encourage anger against the U.S. because it provides an escape valve for the rage of the populations...
President Bush has promised the American people that he will root out terrorists “wherever they may be” and destroy what he deemed the “axis of evil.” In making such a sweeping goal, and with his successes in Afghanistan, Bush’s favorability ratings have skyrocketed. With a re-election campaign fast approaching, one can only wonder if his hawkish behavior is motivated by politics or practicality...