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...your push for a draft purely symbolic, or do you really think there should be a draft? If we had had a draft, those who decided to have an elective - rather than defensive - strike against Iraq would not have received public or congressional support. When you're talking about war and you have no concept of anyone being lost in your family or your community, then it's human nature to be more prone to say, "Let's fight, I'll hold your coat." I'm serious about it. As of now, I would be satisfied to have a discussion...
When Duck and Goose find a ball in the park, they know right away what it is: an egg, of course. In this psychologically acute tale, they squabble over it at first, then strike a truce, making plans for teaching its "fuzzy little occupant" to swim and fly. After learning the truth, they decide to make the best of it. After all, a bond has been formed--not only with the ball but also with each other...
...played a deranged cab-driver, an aggressively tattooed ex-con with revenge fantasies, several Mob bosses and an animated shark, but in few guises does Robert De Niro strike more fear into the heart of people than when they're interviewing him. TIME sent its most talkative editor to the office of the famously tight-lipped star, a few blocks from ground zero, for a conversation about The Good Shepherd, his second directorial effort (the first was 1993's A Bronx Tale...
...involving non-Lebanese powers trying to make a name on a stage on which they don’t belong. Alas, the outcome of this production will most likely be paid for by Lebanese blood. Do the Lebanese people have to accept this situation and continue to hammer and strike each other for the benefit of other nations? I believe they still have a chance to unlearn the habits of civil war and turn to those trying to pit them against each other and say “no thank you, take your trash elsewhere...
...first laugh to see the fresh ecstasy of Linus—tiny clustered prints in the white—and then recognize her, Oh!, which would prompt one or the other to start the to-and-fro of pleasantries that might very well lead to mention of coffee, no, strike that, a drink nearby, but she’ll be damned if that half-somnolent insect didn’t provoke the hand that in a few flip-flap motions scotched that fantasia altogether...