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...loving nation…we love all nations” and “we are friends with the Jewish people.” Some of Ahmadinejad’s answers were simply inaccurate (“Jews, Christians and Muslims…don’t have any serious problems”), while other comments confirmed Bollinger’s existing suspicions that Ahmadinejad is “either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated.”Ahmadinejad’s response to a question about Iran’s treatment of women, for instance, was typical. Instead...
...summer was just that. Columnists opined on the atrocity, evoking emotion by bringing up the impressionable youth. Talking heads on radio and TV chest-bumped and high-fived each other, delighting their audiences with thundering hyperbole and really old—but still funny—prison jokes. Even serious news outlets like CNN jumped into the fray. The bloodthirsty public watched, and loved...
...juvenile and preachy at times, the spiritual effect of the movie is strong. Emile Hirsch, popularized by teen movies like “The Girl Next Door” and “Alpha Dog,” gives an amazing performance as the lead in this substantially more serious film. A dead-on match for McCandless, his persona on screen is moody enough to capture the societal angst of his character. With a bristly face and a slightly ironic tone, Hirsch might have the angry post-grad down better than Jake Gyllenhaal. Sean Penn, directing his fifth feature film...
...When I was really serious into battling, it was of the utmost importance. That was what my life was centered on, life or death. Then, when I sort of retired, I was disappointed with the success I had achieved to that point. I thought that I had the material maybe to make it past nationals, but I never...
President George W. Bush spent Monday morning cautioning a group of young CEOs about excessive spending. It was clear that his statement was primarily aimed at Congress - a warning that he is serious about vetoing Democratic plans to add $22 billion to next year's budget for education, health and veterans' programs. But Bush's fighting words aren't just about the current battle over spending - they are as much about his efforts to shape his legacy as a committed fiscal conservative, all prior evidence to the contrary...