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...islands aflame. From March to May, enormous sections of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Kawasaki and Yokohama were incinerated. The raids on Tokyo had to be called off after May because scarcely any major targets were left. Of the carnage, LeMay said, "No point in slaughtering civilians for the mere sake of slaughter." He was after military production. But, he added, "the entire population got into the act and worked to make those airplanes or munitions of war ... We knew we were going to kill a lot of women and kids ... Had to be done...
...between romantic love and mother love, with guaranteed misery no matter which you chose. Novels like Anna Karenina taught us the "bad" woman's fate, which is ideally suicide. The Bridges of Madison County gives us the "good" woman's answer, which is to renounce romantic love for the sake of husband and kids. But the more disquieting message of that story is that four days and three nights with a sexy stranger can outweigh anything else that ever happens in a "good" woman's life...
GENERAL POWELL, FOR AMERICA'S SAKE, can you afford not to run? DARLENE J. CARROLL Minneapolis, Minnesota...
...character's there, but expanding the role, that's just crossing the line, bub. Y'know, it seems to me that conservatives would love "Roseanne." It emphasizes the importance of family and the problems that a lack of a strong family causes. It promotes fidelity. And, for heaven's sake, its unwed pregnant woman not only decided to have her baby, but also married its father. Oh, well. This all matters for naught in light of the expansion of the role of the gay character. Onwards...
...sake, they're also idiots! Alex is a ditz, Georgie cheated on her wonderful husband because she fell for a slimy shrink, Teddy uses sex to feel loved and Frankie married her sister's ex-husband. Newly-found half-sister Charlie has been reasonably sane so far, but just give her time. Nothing any of these women have done could possibly inspire anyone with half a brain to emulate them. Fans of the show watch them to feel better about their own lives, not to decide political stances...