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...Iraq, the concept of sacrifice has resurfaced in American politics, but this time in a mutilated and parasitic form. Defying his predecessors, who demanded restraint and sacrifice from the country as a whole, the president has again chosen to place the entirety of the burden on a small segment of the public—the 130,000 American families, which will now become 20,000 more, with sons and daughters deployed in Iraq. Bush has ironically come to the same conclusion as the enemies he so steadfastly opposes—that our problems should be solved, not through collective sacrifice...
...great legitimacy in launching an organic skin-care line. Plus, the program is simple and serious, and those are two success factors for skin care." The CEO also cites the range's Ecocert label, "which is a guarantee of seriousness and honesty for the consumer in a market segment where codes are still blurry...
...Science—links geometric concepts to Islamic art. The “girih tiles,” Lu and Steinhardt write, describe the Islamic patterns that may have served as models for creating huge masterpieces without the extensive and often inconsistent practice of separately drawing each line segment. Historians had previously assumed that artisans used straightedges and compasses to produce the ornate patterns. “It would be incredible if it were all coincidence. At the very least, it shows us a culture that we often don’t credit enough was far more advanced than...
...wonderful illustration of globalization's reach, even U.S. satirist Stephen Colbert has helped fuel the dispute by featuring Bachchan and Khan - "the Indian Robert Redford and Brad Pitt only crank up the handsome and rip the knob off" - in his television show's celebrity feuds segment. Khan, Colbert said way back in early January, had failed to turn up to Bachchan's New Year's Eve party. And so the cycle of silliness continues: a comic takeoff of an Indian news story is picked up by Indian newspapers weeks after it aired and cited as international recognition of a feud...
...Franken has been running for office since the late '70s, when he would appear on SNL's Weekend Update segment and announced, "Vote for me, Al Franken. You'll be glad you did!" In his possibly ironic role as a relentless self-promoter, he proclaimed the 1980s "the Al Franken Decade." In 1999 he published Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency, the myopically prophetic account of how he won the 2000 election and shortly thereafter lost the presidency (though his attempt to personally kill Saddam Hussein sounds like a natural poll...