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...Things begin to change when, in a subversive twist on the spider bite, Andy discovers he gains superior strength after smoking cigarettes. "It was like my entire body got a giant boner," he says. Naturally he takes this newfound energy to the schoolyard where he pounds Stoob, a mullet-headed jock that Louis has inadvisably provoked. Would you really have done any different...
...Bush administration’s policies “have changed the face of America around the globe from that of a giant peacemaker to that of a schoolyard bully,” Byrd said. “People who once declared strong allegiance with America now question our purpose. That is not America...
...foreign policy and his own with a thicket of civics-book phrases like unilateral, multilateralism, community of nations and America's relationship with the world. But at the Democrats' first rally together in Cleveland, Ohio, Edwards made the same point in a way that would be understood in any schoolyard: "We need a President who will lead the world, not bully it." Asked a question about outsourcing during his interview with TIME, Edwards talked about what it did to the soul of his hometown when the paper mill where his father worked closed down. When he finished, Kerry couldn...
...Ghraib photos were revealed and the U.S. military chose not to fight the Islamic radicals in Fallujah (a retreat compounded by last week's decision not to pursue Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army). Taken together, those events represent a coherent pattern of behavior--that of a schoolyard bully, who tortures the weak and runs away from the strong. This is, sadly, the way Abu Ghraib and Fallujah are perceived by our enemies. I was traveling through the Middle East as some of these events unfolded, and so the embarrassment I felt was direct and intense. The experience has been...
...heard about the inspiring Edible Schoolyard program that Alice Waters has created at a middle school in Berkeley, CA. Her cross-curricular program of planting and reaping, cooking and serving can change a child?s relationship with food in a profound almost spiritual way. It teaches kids to love quality over quantity, and we need to see more like that...