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...American who has the slightest contact with a television, radio, or newspaper knows the unlikely story of George W. Bush: a party-going, beer-loving, underachieving cowboy from Texas somehow beats all odds to become the 43rd President of the United States. But “W.,” Oliver Stone’s disappointing and ill-advised dramatization of this story, “misunderestimates” the role that intrigue and innovation, rather than controversy alone, play in depicting the life of a leader...
...enough in the course of interrogating the nine to make it politically dangerous for their warlord masters to set them free. "We know who the pirates are, where they come from, what clan they're with - we know quite a bit," Baptiste says. "If it's learned they've somehow vanished into air, we'd also have good reasons for speculating why that happened...
...found Elizabeth Gilbert's essay "A Family Divided" to be eminently sad [Oct. 20]. An Obama supporter, Gilbert tells us she is "losing sleep" over the possibility that her father will vote for McCain. She worries that it "could somehow threaten our affection." Really? I understand that many people are passionate in their political beliefs, but to obsess over your own father's political preferences to the point where you want to "scold him or force him to accept [your] worldview" strikes me as rather extreme and narrow-minded. Salvatore Astorina, BROOKLYN...
...Obama’s good name unwittingly dig in to positions they should never have taken. To defend Obama as John McCain did—as not an Arab, but a “good family man”—is to concede that Muslim heritage is somehow intrinsically disturbing. The notion of fighting over whether someone is or is not Muslim seems especially preposterous against the backdrop of chaos and crisis gripping Turkey right now over a terrorism trial unprecedented in its scale. Turkey may seem exotic and far removed from the American collective consciousness with...
Apparently, this aphorism applies even when the absent party is an abstruse and foreboding series of numbers that once leered over your meal options. Somehow, old friends who once had nothing but vitriol for the quasi-meaningless card stock feel lost without them, which is a problem in itself...