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...Iskandariyah's mayor after he was blown up by a powerful roadside bomb called an EFP earlier this month. They have to. The details are so horrible that one either laughs or cries, or falls into that numb, silent stupor known to combat-hardened troops as the thousand-yard stare. They know EFPs are often aimed at them...
...rough month. Liberal interest groups are running brutal TV ads that take a page from adopt-a-starving-African-child commercials. Adorable children stare wide-eyed into the camera as a voice-over criticizes President Bush and members of his party for blocking a $35 billion expansion of the popular State Children's Health Insurance Program ("George Bush just vetoed Abby," intones the narrator). And sick kids, it turns out, are just the first salvo: Democrats have lined up an array of heartwarming--and expensive--bills that will be potentially embarrassing for Bush to veto...
...Liberal interest groups have had a field day running brutal TV ads that take a page from adopt-a-starving-child commercials: adorable children stare wide-eyed into the camera as a voice-over criticizes the President and members of his party for blocking the S-CHIP bill ("George Bush just vetoed Abby" intones the narrator). And sick kids, it turns out, are just the opening salvo in a wider appropriations battle. Democrats have lined up an array of heartwarming - and expensive - spending bills that will be potentially embarrassing for Bush to veto...
...asked him whether anyone has ever successfully escaped with an un-checked-out book: “It’s happened more than once,” he claims. Sometimes, situations are nuanced and delicate, and one should wait before passing judgment. But sometimes, irrationality and bureaucratic inefficiency stare you in the face so directly that there is no need to think twice. There is no justification for a security system worthy of Logan Airport in a college library. So Heather Cole, Dave Pilbeam, Drew Faust, and anyone else that might be listening...
Three yards away, Harvard students continued to stare, thinking of their own glittering futures...