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...heart, the Republican fight about Iraq is also a battle about Israel. GOP critics of a rush to military action say that if the Bush administration is serious about going after Saddam, it had better push Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table first. Advocates of a quick and decisive war counter that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can't be resolved right now, and therefore shouldn't be an obstacle to action, and, they say, the Middle East will actually be safer without Saddam around...
...prose as "Time, a leaf, a life, a cloud, was forgotten." Skip them and go right to the comix. Here McKean's visual prowess justifies the metaphysical themes. "Cages" mostly takes place in an apartment building that Leo Sabarsky, a painter, has just moved into. There he meets Jonathan Rush, a secretive, Salman Rushdie-like writer whose latest book incites riots. Completing the traditional arts, Angel, a musician who can make stones sing, lives there too. Mixing Ingmar Bergman with Monty Python, strange, vaguely metaphorical characters pop in and out. Pudgy, bowler-hatted men regularly visit the writer to collect...
...sand and watch the guys feel the ocean beneath their feet, an estimated half a million women in the U.S. are taking up the sport (twice as many as in 1996), along with the freewheeling way of life it symbolizes. "Most people get hooked straightaway to the rush of standing up and getting pulled along by the waves," says Australian surfing star Pauline Menczer. "Then the lifestyle comes with it. Once you've experienced both, you can't leave the ocean...
...President appeared to apply the brakes Wednesday, following a meeting at his ranch with his national security team. He emphasized that he was in no rush to reach a decision on Iraq, his willingness to consider a range of non-military options and his intention to consult with allies over how to pursue his goal of ousting Saddam Hussein's regime. Bush's tone appeared to tilt towards the more cautious approach favored by Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Republican foreign policy old guard - the hawks, after all, had been pressing the urgency of immediate U.S. military action...
...when the academic challenge of grade school starts to be felt. "They're being asked to do things that they're very poor at," Papolos says, "and it's a blow to their self-esteem." If school doesn't kick the disorder into overdrive, puberty often does, with its rush of hormones that rattle even the steadiest preteen mind...