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...ashamed of our Congress for adopting legislation that allows coerced testimony to be used as evidence in trials of terrorism suspects [Oct. 9]. President George W. Bush can sugarcoat the inhumane methods of interrogation all he wants, but there are moral standards that we Americans uphold. If the President is really a Christian, I don't understand how he can request such a bill and use political pressure to force it through Congress over the objections of moral and knowledgeable opponents. We suffered a great loss of life and property on 9/11, but the attackers damage us far more...
...Even inside the city, community groups that once worked door to door, ferrying voters to the polls and throwing big parties with music and food, are in disarray. This is not good for the Democrats. "I?m not going to sugarcoat this," says Donna Brazile, chair of the DNC?s Voting Rights Institute and a New Orleans native. "We all know that in terms of the Democratic Party, in order for us Democrats to be viable in the state of Louisiana, we need New Orleans to come back. That?s where the bulk of our voters are. Over one-third...
...whose hobby is stealing books, especially stealing banned books from the Nazis, is a heroine worth fighting for, and that Death is actually a pretty cool guy to hang out with ("I like this human idea of the grim reaper," he says, "I like the scythe"). Zusak doesn't sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in Slaughterhouse-Five: with grim, darkly consoling humor...
...Macquarie's Curson envisages delays in the vaccine project that could mean a pandemic was over before anyone had received a shot. Officials have tended to sugarcoat the prospect of an outbreak, he says, and there's nothing in NIPAC's plan about managing public hysteria. "There's a feeling in Australian society that the government will protect us, that we don't need to do anything," he says. "But people are going to be thrust back on their own resources...
...position at Laura Bush's side to another survivor from his special-forces team--seems to give him license to act as a great counterweight to the misty-eyed patriotism of West Point. He was recruited to teach international relations--and the realities of war. "Major Amerine doesn't sugarcoat anything," says Cadet Jonathan Lum. "His basic lesson is, There's a percentage of you that will...