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...could conceivably move into the White House at the beginning of next year. For McCain, it was a chance to burnish his foreign affairs credentials, not least after tarnishing them at a press conference in Jordan two days earlier where he suggested that Shi'ite Iran was giving succor to Sunni al-Qaeda...
...More material succor would be welcome, too, of course. Some Aborigines accuse the government of avoiding the question of compensation for past wrongs, and few Australians doubt that Aborigines need more investment in health and education. But for now, many are satisfied. Murray Harrison, 70, was a member of the stolen generation. One of 13 siblings, he was found in the care of his aunt, an itinerant farm worker, and put in an orphanage at age 10. He has never forgotten his first night there. "I'd never been locked in before," he says. "For years I used to wake...
...Thermopylae, is based on a graphic novel. Conservatives sup at the classic cup; Victor Davis Hanson, a scholar of ancient warfare, is Dick Cheney's favorite historian. (One of the lessons of the Peloponnesian War, Hanson writes, is that "resolute action" brings "lasting peace." Ah, yes.) And liberals seek succor from the ancient texts too; it is easy to read Harris' novel on political intrigue in Ciceronian Rome as a critique of the idea that external threats justify politicians taking extraordinary power. But why this sudden thing for the toga-and-sandals set? Quid donat...
...President once wrote. "Frees me to make the decisions that others might not like. Frees me to do the right thing, even though it may not poll well. Frees me to enjoy life and not worry about what comes next." In every messy context, the President seeks succor in a simple certainty--good vs. evil, terror vs. freedom--without sensing that wars are also won in the folds of uncertainty and guile, of doubt and tactical adjustment that are alien to the fundamentalist psyche...
...three liters a year, is not that much different - and yet it recently became home to a branch of La Maison du Whisky, an award-winning whisky stockist headquartered in Paris. The new offshoot, tel: (65) 6733 0059, hopes to educate the Southeast Asian market - as well as provide succor to thirsty visitors and the area's sprinkling of whisky fans - with its splendid selection of 700 premium blends and malts, housed in the new Pier complex at Robertson Quay. Selections range from simple blends (you can pick up a bottle of Murphy's, the lightly malted Irish whisky...